 | Lon Cantor - History - 2003 - 244 pages
...the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority...insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous question of civil... | |
 | History - 2003 - 358 pages
...for any great irritation either to his own Party or to the South. Like his predecessor, he declares "that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken, and that to the extent of his ability he shall take care that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed... | |
 | Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - Law - 2004 - 502 pages
...the Union; that Resolves and Ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority...expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part; and... | |
 | Larry D. Mansch - History - 2005 - 246 pages
...the Union, that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority...expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithful executed in all the States. Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part; and... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of...the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing this I deem to be only a simple... | |
 | Mel Friedman, Lina Miceli, Robert Bell, Michael Lee, Sally Wood, Adel Arshaghi, Suzanne Coffield, Michael McIrvin, Anita Price Davis, Research & Education Association, George DeLuca, Joseph Fili, Marilyn Gilbert, Bernice E. Goldberg, Leonard Kenner - Study Aids - 2005 - 886 pages
...violence within any State or States against the authonity of the United States are insurrectionary 70 or revolutionary, according to circumstances. I therefore...as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon 75 me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing this I deem to be... | |
 | Roger L. Ransom - Confederate States of America - 2005 - 376 pages
...the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority...are insurrectionary or revolutionary according to circumstance."43 Scholars have debated at length the legal points in Lincoln's assertion that secession... | |
 | Mel Friedman, Lina Miceli, Robert Bell, Michael Lee, Sally Wood, Adel Arshaghi, Suzanne Coffield, Michael McIrvin, Anita Price Davis, Research & Education Association, George DeLuca, Joseph Fili, Marilyn Gilbert, Bernice E. Goldberg, Leonard Kenner - Study Aids - 2005 - 886 pages
...the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary 70 or revolutionary, according to circumstances. l therefore consider that in view of the Constitution... | |
 | Bijian Zheng - Political Science - 2006 - 102 pages
...opposed secession. I quoted from Lincoln's inaugural speech on March 4, 1861, when he explicitly said, "In view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken. . . . No State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union." I also quoted from his... | |
 | Robert F. Hawes - Political Science - 2006 - 357 pages
...Union, — that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority...expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part; and... | |
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It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United... 
