| Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1899 - 402 pages
...had withdrawn from the Union and had not been rehabilitated, Chase, as chief justice, declared that "the constitution in all its provisions looks to an...indestructible Union, composed of indestructible states." Upon the death of Chase, the chief justiceship was first offered to Roscoe Conkling, who declined it,... | |
| Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1899 - 444 pages
...had withdrawn from the Union and had not been rehabilitated, Chase, as chief justice, declared that "the constitution in all its provisions looks to an...indestructible Union, composed of indestructible states." Upon the death of Chase, the chief justiceship was first offered to Roscoe Conkling, who declined it,... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - Income tax - 1986 - 1282 pages
...their efforts to meet the needs of their people and manage their own affairs. As Justice Chase wrote, "the Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to...indestructible Union composed of indestructible States." If there were one administration that understood this idea, I thought it would be this one. Three years... | |
| Frederick J. Blue - Biography & Autobiography - 1987 - 452 pages
...Constitution," said Chase, "was ordained 'to form a more perfect Union.' " The fundamental law, he continued, "in all its provisions looks to an indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States." Texas, in joining the Union, had "entered into an indissoluble relation," as much so "as the union... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - Puerto Rico - 1989 - 1352 pages
...States was as complete, as perpetual, and as Indissoluble as the union between the original States." "The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to...indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States." The so-called "Commonwealth" is nothing more than a name, a label, attached to a category of indeterminate... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - Puerto Rico - 1990 - 332 pages
...States was as complete, as perpetual, and as indissoluble as the union between the original States." "The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to...indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States." The so-called "Commonwealth" is nothing more than a name, a label, attached to a category of indeterminate... | |
| John Niven - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 575 pages
...existed in its external relations. Chase closed this argument with one of his rhetorical flourishes that the Constitution "in all its provisions looks to an...indestructible Union composed of indestructible states." Texas recovered the bonds whose principal and interest were redeemable in gold, and Chase made his... | |
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