 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 \...  Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Public Services - Page 120by Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1866 - 216 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. Department of State - Alabama claims - 1869 - 860 pages
...impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself. * * * * * * * * * It follows, from these views, that no State, upon...violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary, or revolutionary^ according to circumstances.... | |
 | United States. Department of State - Alabama claims - 1869 - 872 pages
...to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself. * * * * * * * *•* It follows, from these views, that no State, upon its own mere motion j. can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void;... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1888 - 990 pages
...Union by one, or by a part only, of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element...motion, can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves an&ordinancesto that effect are legally void ; and that acts of violence, within any State or States,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1874 - 558 pages
...the Union of these States is perpetual, — that no State, upon its own mere motion, can law• fully get out of the Union, — that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, — that acts of violence within any State are insurrectionary or revolutionary, — and that, to the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1870 - 870 pages
...impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself. ********* It follows, from these views, that no State, upon its own mere motion,, ran lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinance* to that effect are legally void; and... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon, Chauncey Forward Black - 1872 - 604 pages
...destruction of the Union by one .or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element...of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary according to circumstances. >... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - 1872 - 404 pages
...destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element...of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances. I... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - United States - 1872 - 386 pages
...destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element...of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances. I... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 786 pages
...Union by one, or by a part only, of the States, be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element...violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances. States.... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 780 pages
...lawfnllr possible, the Union is less perfect than before, the Constitution having lost the vital clement of perpetuity. " It follows, from these views, that no State, upon its own mere motion, can UwftDy get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void ; and that... | |
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