 | United States - 1868 - 422 pages
...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...before, the Constitution having lost the vital element oi perpetuity. It follows from these views that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1888 - 990 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... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 780 pages
...object* for ordaining ami establishing the Constitution was ' to form a mart perfect union.' " But if destruction of the Union by one, or by a part only, of the States, be lawfnllr possible, the Union is less perfect than before, the Constitution having lost the vital clement... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 786 pages
...perpetual by the Articles of Confederation in 1778, and finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects in ordaining and establishing the Constitution was ' to form a more perfect Union. " For a brief account of the Colonial Confederacies, the reader is referred to Mr. Towle's Analysis... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1874 - 1956 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'...States, be . lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity.'" * Frw a quarter... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - United States - 1876 - 538 pages
...plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1777 ; and finally in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining...lawfully possible, the Union is less than before. ... I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken ; and... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - United States - 1876 - 542 pages
...plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1777 ; and finally in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining...lawfully possible, the Union is less than before. ... I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbrokeu ; and... | |
 | David Hume - 1876 - 944 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...form a more perfect Union. But, if the destruction of tho Union by one or by a, part only of the states be lawfully possible, the Union is less than before,... | |
 | Orators - 1880 - 698 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... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - United States - 1882 - 582 pages
...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...before,' the Constitution having lost the vital element ol perpetuity. It follows from these views that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get... | |
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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... 
