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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. "
Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and ... - Page 205
by Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1865 - 842 pages
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Book Notes: A Monthly Literary Magazine and Review of New Books, Volume 6

American literature - 1901 - 694 pages
...answer to those who maintained that any State being a party to the Union could withdraw, he asked : "If the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peacefully unmade by less than all the parties who made...
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Abraham Lincoln: A Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings

Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 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...
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The Lost Soul of American Politics: Virtue, Self-Interest, and the ...

John P. Diggins - History - 1986 - 430 pages
...the meaning of "all governments" as having the duty of self-preservation. Even if the Federal Union be "not a government proper, but an association of states in the nature of a contract merely," the definition of contract presupposes that one member cannot violate it without the consent of all...
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Abraham Lincoln, Public Speaker

Waldo W. Braden - History - 1993 - 132 pages
...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. . . . It follows from these views that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of...
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Methods of Rhetorical Criticism: A Twentieth-century Perspective

Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1989 - 524 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...
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Lincoln, the War President: The Gettysburg Lectures

Gabor S. Boritt - History - 1992 - 273 pages
...and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. . . . Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and...by some action not provided for in the instrument itself."4 In short, as the South learned at a terrible price, self-determination was not applicable...
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Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America

Garry Wills - Death - 1992 - 324 pages
...people's existence precedes and makes possible the Constitution. Otherwise, "The United States [would] be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of a contract [or pact] merely" (SW 2.217). According to Lincoln and Webster — and, as we shall see, to Story —...
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Landmark Essays on Rhetorical Criticism

Thomas W. Benson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 272 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...
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Of the People, by the People, for the People and Other Quotations from ...

Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 208 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. "First Inaugural Address," March 4, 1 861 , reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 4,...
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Focus on U.S. History: The Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction

Kathy Sammis - History - 1997 - 132 pages
...perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. Again, if the United States be not a government 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 rt?...
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