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? One party to a contract may violate it — break... Annual Register - Página 212editado por - 1862Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 276 páginas
...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?... | |
| William Alfred Peffer - 1900 - 168 páginas
...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 the... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1900 - 186 páginas
...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. (February 15, 1861, Speech at Pittsburg, Pa,— Raymond, p. 139.) By the Constitution the Executive... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1901 - 262 páginas
...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...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?... | |
| Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson - 1901 - 516 páginas
...execute all the express provisions of our national government, and the Union will endure forever — it being impossible to destroy it except by some action...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 - 1901 - 398 páginas
...all the express provisions of our 135 National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever — it being impossible to destroy it except by some action...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... | |
| Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 408 páginas
...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... | |
| Robert Henry Browne - 1901 - 718 páginas
...of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever, it being impossible to destroy it by some action not provided for in the instrument...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?... | |
| 1901 - 694 páginas
...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... | |
| Francis Newton Thorpe - 1901 - 748 páginas
...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. Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861. CONTENTS TO VOLUME III. BOOK V. EMANCIPATION.... | |
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