 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - English literature - 1901 - 398 pages
...difficulty. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the union of these states is perpet-130 ual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments.... | |
 | Robert Henry Browne - United States - 1901 - 718 pages
...heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. *'I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual....Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental laws of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision... | |
 | Gabor S. Boritt - History - 1992 - 273 pages
...be invoked? Abraham Lincoln defined the second tradition succinctly in his first inaugural address: "I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and...Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. . . . Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 500 pages
...Kans., 1984). CHAPTER 9 "The Earth Belongs in Usufruct to the Living" HERBERT SLOAN /1 is safe to assume that no government proper, ever had a provision in its organic law for its own term1nat1on. — Abraham Lincoln, 18611 Our Constitution is a covenant running from the first generat1on... | |
 | Thomas W. Benson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 272 pages
...constitutional duty."102 When Lincoln declared, "I hold that in the contemplation of international law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual," the "cheers were hearty and prolonged."103 When he said, "I shall take care that the laws of the Union... | |
 | Christian Liberty Press, Geoffrey Parsons - United States - 2007 - 196 pages
...federal government created in 1787. In his first inaugural, in 1861, President Lincoln defined his stand: "I hold that in contemplation of universal law and...Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual." 122 The victory for the Union ended this issue at the point of a gun. The final theory of the nation... | |
 | Business & Economics - 1994 - 1428 pages
...TOP-HEAVY ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS AND A SELF-SERVING AND SELF-PERPETUATING BUREAUCRACY. LINCOLN NOTED THAT: "IT IS SAFE TO ASSERT THAT NO GOVERNMENT PROPER EVER HAD A PROVISION IN THE ORGANIC LAW FOR ITS OWN 4 TERMINATION." PERHAPS THAT IS WHY PROGRAMS TEND TO GROW, BUT LINCOLN... | |
 | Business & Economics - 1994 - 2018 pages
...TOP-HEAVY ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS AND A SELF-SERVING AND SELF-PERPETUATING BUREAUCRACY. LINCOLN NOTED THAT: "IT IS SAFE TO ASSERT THAT NO GOVERNMENT PROPER EVER HAD A PROVISION IN THE ORGANIC LAW FOR ITS OWN 4 TERMINATION." PERHAPS THAT IS WHY PROGRAMS TEND TO GROW, BUT LINCOLN... | |
 | Sanford Levinson - Law - 1995 - 344 pages
...precipitated19 the most important restructuring in American constitutional history when he declared in 1861: "I hold that in contemplation of universal law, and...of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual."20 He did not say "the Supreme Court has held" or "I infer from the Constitution and/or... | |
 | Priscilla Wald - History - 1995 - 418 pages
...Lincoln insists that the survival and prosperity of the parts of the Union are contingent upon the whole. "Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments," and, conversely, "the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy" (AL, 4:264, 268). The "great... | |
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I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper... 
