| Robert Walter Johannsen - Biography & Autobiography - 1973 - 1012 pages
...Douglas just a few days before. Lincoln was also emphatic in his opposition to secession, insisting that "no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union." The Union was perpetual and could not be broken. He promised that the Constitution and laws would be... | |
| Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 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... | |
| Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...speak — but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it? ... 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... | |
| Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity. [15] 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... | |
| Chester G. Hearn - History - 2000 - 274 pages
...restoration plan. It gave substance to a point he made in his first inaugural address when he said, "no state upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union." On July 4, 1861, in a special message to Congress he reaffirmed this guiding principle, stating that... | |
| Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 416 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... | |
| Burton Egbert Stevenson - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 416 pages
...would be. They were not left long in douht. His inaugural address was earnest and direct. He said, "The union of these States is perpetual. No State...own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union. I shall take care that the laws of the Union are faithfully executed in all the States." It was, in... | |
| Janet Benge, Geoff Benge - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 228 pages
...where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.... No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union.... I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union... | |
| Paul Calore - History - 2015 - 240 pages
...Hannibal Hamlin was also sworn in. In his inaugural address, Lincoln reminded the country 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 V. Denson - Executive power - 2001 - 830 pages
...secession was a "most valuable, a most sacred right" of each state within the Union and proclaimed that "no state upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union."38 Later, during the war, however, Lincoln again recognized the right of forty-nine counties... | |
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