 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 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...the States, be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows from... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 448 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...the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows from... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 268 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...only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is jess perfect than befpre the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity. Itjollows from.these_views... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 782 pages
...pJighted 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...the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union." ./ i_But if the destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible,... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1894 - 1068 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." Again at Gettysburg he said : Fourscore and seven years ago [1776] our fathers brought forth on this... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Morgan - Citizenship - 1895 - 376 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 Constitution was to form a more perfect Union. — Abraham Lincoln. The Constitution of the United States forms a government, not a league, and whether... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 502 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...union. But if the destruction of the Union by one or by part only of the states be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than: before, the Constitution... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 792 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... | |
 | Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1897 - 504 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 Payson Powell - Mathematics - 1897 - 488 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... | |
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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... 
