 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1900 - 186 pages
...the express provisions of our National Constitution and the Union will endure forever — it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself. (February 15, 1861, Speech at Pittsburg, Pa,— Raymond, p. 139.) By the Constitution the Executive... | |
 | Paul C. Nagel - Federal government - 1964 - 342 pages
...executing the "express provisions" of the Constitution, "the Union will endure forever... it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself." 83 But this Union Absolute was hardly a mystical system emanating from memory and tradition. To solve... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 696 pages
...Union •will endure forever, it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not proTided for in the instrument itself. Again, if the United States be not a jfovernment proper, but an association of States in the nature of a contract merely, can it, as a contract,... | |
 | John P. Diggins - History - 1986 - 430 pages
...the meaning of "all governments" as having the duty of self-preservation. Even if the Federal Union be "not a government proper, but an association of states in the nature of a contract merely," the definition of contract presupposes that one member cannot violate it without... | |
 | Waldo W. Braden - History - 1993 - 132 pages
...all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever—it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself. . . . It follows from these views that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of... | |
 | Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1989 - 524 pages
...the United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances." Furthermore, "if the United States be not a government proper,...unmade, by less than all the parties who made it?" To the North, the mere assertion of the principle of perpetuity would have been sufficient; no further... | |
 | Garry Wills - Death - 1992 - 324 pages
...people's existence precedes and makes possible the Constitution. Otherwise, "The United States [would] be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of a contract [or pact] merely" (SW 2.217). According to Lincoln and Webster — and, as we shall see,... | |
 | Gabor S. Boritt - History - 1992 - 273 pages
...the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever — it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself."4 In short, as the South learned at a terrible price, self-determination was not applicable... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 208 pages
...the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever — it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself. "First Inaugural Address," March 4, 1 861 , reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 4,... | |
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Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever— it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself. 
