| Erastus Buck Treat - United States - 1872 - 386 pages
...before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. 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... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 786 pages
...the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. " 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... | |
| Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1874 - 562 pages
...contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual, — 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, — that acts of violence within... | |
| David Hume - 1876 - 942 pages
...the constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. " It follows, from these views, that no state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves nnd ordinances to that effect are equally void ; and that acts of violence within any... | |
| Alexander Harris - Slavery - 1876 - 530 pages
...would pursue was made in his inaugural address, wherein he says : " 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... | |
| Thomas Lanier Clingman - United States - 1877 - 644 pages
...pronounces insurgents and revolutionists. This is his language. " 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... | |
| Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1877 - 814 pages
...he contended that it could not be peaceably unmade except by all the parties that made it ; 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... | |
| Orators - 1880 - 698 pages
...before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. 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... | |
| John Codman Hurd - Constitutional law - 1881 - 596 pages
...passage which has often been cited, judicially and otherwise : " 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." State-Lapse; or, State-Suicide. ereignty... | |
| John Denison Champlin - United States - 1881 - 626 pages
...and election to the Presidency in 1860. In his inaugural address, Mr. Lincoln took the ground 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... | |
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