 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Politics, Practical - 1867 - 510 pages
...proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and...being impossible to destroy it, except by some action uot provided for in the instrument itself. " Again : if the United States be not a government proper,... | |
 | United States. Department of State - Alabama claims - 1869 - 860 pages
...proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and...action not provided for in the instrument itself. * * * * * * * * * It follows, from these views, that no State, upon its own mere motion,, can lawfully... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1888 - 990 pages
...proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and...proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1870 - 870 pages
...proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all tlie express . provisions of our national Constitution,...action not provided for in the instrument itself. ********* It follows, from these views, that no State, upon its own mere motion,, ran lawfully get... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 786 pages
...proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and...proper, but an association of States in the nature of the contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 780 pages
...execute all tho expiess provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever, ic being impossible to destroy it, except by some action...Again, if the United States be not a government proper, bat an" association of State in the nature of the contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1874 - 1956 pages
...proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and...action not provided for in the instrument itself. If the United States be not a government proper, but an nssociation of States in the nature of a contract... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - Periodicals - 1869 - 534 pages
...profound solicitude for the Union. ' Continue to execute ', says Mr. Lincoln in his Inaugural, '•all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and...action not provided for in the instrument itself? Now, this was the doctrine of those by whom the Constitution was framed and adopted. Hence, by the... | |
 | Orators - 1880 - 698 pages
...for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national government, and the Union will endure forever — it being impossible...proper, but an association of states in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Constitutional law - 1881 - 596 pages
...would " continue to execute all the express provisions of our national constitution, the Union would endure forever, it being impossible to destroy it,...action not provided for in the instrument itself." 2 But there is something else, lying behind the Constitution, which has to be settled before any conclusion... | |
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Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever — it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself. 
