 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority...the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing this I deem to be only a simple... | |
 | Mel Friedman, Lina Miceli, Robert Bell, Michael Lee, Sally Wood, Adel Arshaghi, Suzanne Coffield, Michael McIrvin, Anita Price Davis, Research & Education Association, George DeLuca, Joseph Fili, Marilyn Gilbert, Bernice E. Goldberg, Leonard Kenner - Study Aids - 2005 - 886 pages
...violence within any State or States against the authonity of the United States are insurrectionary 70 or revolutionary, according to circumstances. I therefore...as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon 75 me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing this I deem to be... | |
 | Roger L. Ransom - Confederate States of America - 2005 - 376 pages
...get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the...are insurrectionary or revolutionary according to circumstance."43 Scholars have debated at length the legal points in Lincoln's assertion that secession... | |
 | Mel Friedman, Lina Miceli, Robert Bell, Michael Lee, Sally Wood, Adel Arshaghi, Suzanne Coffield, Michael McIrvin, Anita Price Davis, Research & Education Association, George DeLuca, Joseph Fili, Marilyn Gilbert, Bernice E. Goldberg, Leonard Kenner - Study Aids - 2005 - 886 pages
...get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary 70 or revolutionary, according to circumstances. l therefore consider that in view of the Constitution... | |
 | John W. Burgess - History - 2005 - 353 pages
...of the "Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect " were " legally Toid ; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United Statee " were " insurrectionary or revolutionary according to circumstances." He declared that the... | |
 | Bijian Zheng - Political Science - 2006 - 102 pages
...opposed secession. I quoted from Lincoln's inaugural speech on March 4, 1861, when he explicitly said, "In view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken. . . . No State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union." I also quoted from his... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...out of the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect, are legally void ; and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority...my ability, I shall take care, as the Constitution itaelf expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union shall be faithfully executed in all the... | |
 | Robert F. Hawes - Political Science - 2006 - 357 pages
...inaugural address, claimed that the Union was unbroken (even though seven states had already seceded): I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution...the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. This issue came back to haunt Lincoln many times during the course of the war. He was attempting to... | |
 | William D. Pederson, Thomas T. Samaras, Frank J. Williams - Biometry - 2007 - 216 pages
...secede from the Union. Legislative acts allowing for secession "are "legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority...insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances." 13 Lincoln called the whole idea of secession "anarchy." The rule of the majority adheres to "constitutional... | |
 | Norman Schofield - Political Science - 2006 - 3 pages
...out of the Union,—that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the...are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to the circumstances ... A majority, held in restraint by constitutional checks, and limitations, and... | |
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It follows from these views that no state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void ; and that acts of violence within any state or states against the authority of the United... 
