 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1882 - 680 pages
...Articles of Confederado« in 177Й. And, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining aid establishing the 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... | |
 | Frank Abial Flower - Republican Party - 1884 - 662 pages
...Articles of Confederation, in 1778; and, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining ami establishing the Constitution was to form a more perfect...only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union \* K'Kw than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows from... | |
 | Alexander Johnston - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1884 - 430 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... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - Presidential candidates - 1884 - 266 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... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 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... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 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... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 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... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - United States - 1889 - 214 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... | |
 | United States - 1889 - 242 pages
...objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect union." But if destruction of the Union, by one, or by a part only,...the States, be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows, from... | |
 | Frederick W. Osborn - Recitations - 1890 - 68 pages
...and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of the Confederation, in 1778 ; and finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining...the states be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows from... | |
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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... 
