| Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 278 pages
...assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. . . . 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 it?... | |
| United States. President - Presidents - 1900 - 808 pages
...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 it? Que party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak — but does it not require all to... | |
| Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1900 - 654 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 parties who make It? One... | |
| Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 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...will endure forever, it being impossible to destroy except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself. "Again, if the United States be not... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1901 - 262 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?... | |
| Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - English literature - 1901 - 398 pages
...its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our 135 National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever...proper, but an association of states in the nature of HO a contract merely, can' it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who... | |
| Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1901 - 516 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?... | |
| Harry Thurston Peck - Anthologies - 1901 - 408 pages
...difficulty. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. impossible to destroy it, except by some action not...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... | |
| Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 748 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. Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861. CONTENTS TO VOLUME III. BOOK V. EMANCIPATION.... | |
| Richard Salter Storrs - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1901 - 600 pages
...not expressed in the fundamental law of all national governments. . . . Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and...action not provided for in the instrument itself." And where has ever the absurdity of the argument for the right of secession, derived from the general... | |
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