 | Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1865 - 636 pages
...plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining...Constitution was 'to form a more perfect union.' "But if destruction of the Union, by one, or by a part only, of the States, be lawfully possible, the Union... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 690 pages
...plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining...Constitution was " to form a more perfect union." But if destruction of the Union, by one, or by a part only, of the States, be lawfully possible, the Union... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1865 - 642 pages
...and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. An. I. finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining...Constitution was 'to form a more perfect union.' "But if destruction of the Union, by one, or by a part only, of the States, be lawfally possible, the Union... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 680 pages
...plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederaiion in 1778. And, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining...Constitution was " to form a more perfect union." But if destruction of the Union, by one, or by a part only, of the States, be lawfully possible, the Union... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1865 - 866 pages
...anil engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, filially, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining...Constitution was "to form a more perfect union." But if destruction of the Union, by one, or by a part onl^, of the States, be lawfully possible, the Union... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - Biography - 1865 - 206 pages
...plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining...Constitution was ' to form a more perfect union' " But if destruction of the Union, by one or by a part only of the States, be lawfully possible, the Union is... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining...Constitution was " to form a more perfect union." But if destruction of the Union, by one, or by a part only, of the States be lawfully possible, the Union... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 676 pages
...objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect union." But if and it may not be: but the great flict that wo have grown great •nd powerful lest perfect than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1865 - 704 pages
...Confederation, in 1778; and, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing tho Constitution was to form a more perfect union. But, if the destruction of the Union by one or by я part only of tho States be lawfully possible, the Union is less than before, the Constitution having... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 680 pages
...the Union, by one, or by a part only, of the States, be lawfully possible, the Union is lest perfect than before, the Constitution having lost the vital...perpetuity. It follows, from these views, that no State, Opon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolta and ordinance* to that effect... | |
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Association in 177-4. 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 expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation... 
