 | Charles Richard Williams - 1914 - 550 pages
...secession in accordance with the National Constitution — he said: "This sophism derives much, perhaps the whole, of its currency from the assumption that...Union. The original ones passed into the Union even before they cast off their British colonial dependence, and the new ones each came into the Union directly... | |
 | History - 1914 - 442 pages
...Union who could have been brought to no such thing the day before. This sophism derives much, perhaps the whole, of its currency from the assumption that...Union. The original ones passed into the Union even before they cast off their British colonial dependence, and the new ones each came into the Union directly... | |
 | ARTHUR N. HOLCOMBE - 1919 - 572 pages
...that the people of a particular state do not possess sovereign powers. As Abraham Lincoln has said: "Our states have neither more nor less power than that reserved to them in 1 For a definition of the term, "body politic," as understood at the Revolution, see the Preamble to... | |
 | Bunford Samuel - Constitutional law - 1920 - 416 pages
...both these and much more, that 'all men are created equal.' " ** f "This sophism derives much, perhaps the whole, of its currency from the assumption that...reserved to them in the Union by the Constitution 8T — no one of them ever having been a State out of the Union. The original ones passed into the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1920 - 362 pages
...Union, who could have been brought to no such thing the day before. This sophism derives much, perhaps the whole, of its currency from the assumption that...some omnipotent and sacred supremacy pertaining to a State—to each State of our Federal Union. Our States have neither more nor less power than that reserved... | |
 | Burton Alva Konkle - North Carolina - 1922 - 576 pages
...Morehead listened, drew emphatic attention to President Lincoln's position that the states had no other power "than that reserved to them in the Union by the Constitution, no one of them having ever been a State outside of the Union."1 This was on Saturday. The following day President... | |
 | Jefferson Davis - Confederate States of America - 1923 - 626 pages
...refraining from attack on us; and justifies his refusal by the assertion that the States have no other power "than that reserved to them in the Union by the Constitution, no one of them having ever been a State out of the Union." This view of the constitutional relations between the States... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1927 - 474 pages
...Union, who could have been brought to no such thing the day before. This sophism derives much, perhaps the whole, of its currency from the assumption that...Union. The original ones passed into the Union even before they cast oif their British colonial dependence; .and the new ones each came into the Union... | |
 | Archibald Ewing Stevenson - Prohibition - 1927 - 174 pages
...his message to the Congress which met in special session on July Fourth, 1861. "Our States," he said, "have neither more nor less power than that reserved...Union. The original ones passed into the Union even before they cast off their British colonial dependence; and the new ones each came into the Union directly... | |
 | Wilfred Ellsworth Binkley - United States - 1928 - 120 pages
...or the historical growth of national consciousness ? Why ? 4. In Lincoln's first inaugural he said: "Our states have neither more nor less power than...union. The original ones passed into the union even before they cast off their British colonial dependence and the new ones each came into the union directly... | |
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This sophism derives much, perhaps the whole, of its currency from the assumption that there is some omnipotent and sacred supremacy pertaining to a state — to each state of our Federal Union. Our states have neither more nor less power than that reserved... 
