 Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it ? One party to a contract may violate it — break...  The American Crisis Considered - Page 229by Charles Lempriere - 1861 - 296 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 pages
...merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak...but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it? of the Union itself. The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...r unmade by less than all the parties who made it ? One party to a contract may violate it—break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it? of the Union itself. The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the... | |
 | United States - 1889 - 242 pages
...merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it ? One party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak...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,... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - United States - 1889 - 214 pages
...merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it ? One party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak...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,... | |
 | Frederick W. Osborn - Recitations - 1890 - 68 pages
...merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it ? One party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak...formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued in the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 500 pages
...merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it ? One party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak...is perpetual, confirmed by the history of the Union in itself. The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 540 pages
...merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak,...but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it 1 Descending from these general principles, we find the proposition that, in legal contemplation, the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 454 pages
...proposition that in legal contemplation the Union is perpetual, confirmed by the history of the Union in itself. The Union is much older than the Constitution....formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued in the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured,... | |
 | Hannah Amelia (Noyes) Davidson, Mrs. Hannah Amelia Noyes Davidson - United States - 1891 - 232 pages
...merely, can it. as a contract. be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it — break it. so to speak...formed, in fact. by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued in the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured,... | |
 | United States - 1891 - 928 pages
...merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak;...formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association, in 1774. It was matured and continued in the Declaration of Independence, in 1776. It was further matured,... | |
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