 | United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 796 pages
...speak — but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it? Descending from these general principles, we find the proposition that in legal contemplation the Union is perpetual conf1rmed by the history of the Union itself. The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 pages
...speak, but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it? Descending from these general principles, we find the proposition that, in legal contemplation,...1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it? Descending from these general principles, we find the proposition that, in legal contemplation,...1776. It was further matured and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of... | |
 | Kenneth M. Stampp - History - 1981 - 342 pages
...Lincoln, in his first inaugural address, summarized this part of the Unionist case most succinctly: [We] find the proposition that, in legal contemplation,...1776. It was further matured and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of... | |
 | Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1989 - 524 pages
...speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it? Descending from these general principles, we find the proposition that, in legal contemplation,...1776. It was further matured and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of... | |
 | Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Kathleen Hall Jamieson - History - 1990 - 285 pages
...Contemplation and perpetuity were repeatedly linked. "Descending from these general principles," he said, "we find the proposition that in legal contemplation...perpetual confirmed by the history of the Union itself" (73). At the core of the speech is an implied question about the continued life of the Union and the... | |
 | Garry Wills - Death - 1992 - 324 pages
...Lincoln speaking at his inauguration. Descending from these general principles, we find the propositions that, in legal contemplation, the Union is perpetual,...was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association of 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured,... | |
 | Thomas W. Benson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 272 pages
...speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it? Descending from these general principles, we find the proposition that, in legal contemplation,...and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1 776. It was further matured and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and... | |
 | Thomas H. Naylor, William H. Willimon - Business & Economics - 1997 - 300 pages
...an unlawful form of anarchy. In March 4, 1861, after seven states had already seceded, Lincoln said: The Union is much older than the Constitution. It...1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of... | |
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The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States... 
