...lost the vital element of perpetuity."19 The Supreme Court found the preamble decisive on this point: "It is difficult to convey the idea of indissoluble...indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?"20 But Lincoln and the Court, by linking the Articles and the preamble, were again assuming continuity,...

...Confederation. By these the Union was solemnly declared to 'be perpetual.' And when these Articles were found to be inadequate to the exigencies of the country,...if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?" Ibid., 724-25. , 727-28. considered as provisional, and, in that light, it seems to have been regarded...

...preamble to the 1789 Constitution had declared that the new Union was to be even "more perfect"; and "[w]hat can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?"177 173 A final possible basis for distinguishing Klein from McCardle was that Klein had won in...

...Confederation declare the Union's character to be "perpetual." Says the Court, "[W]hen these Articles were found to be inadequate to the exigencies of the country,...convey the idea of indissoluble unity more clearly then by these words. What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union made more perfect, is not?"s3 The...

...Confederation. By these the Union was solemnly declared to "be perpetual." And when these Articles were found to be inadequate to the exigencies of the country,...convey the idea of indissoluble unity more clearly by these words. What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not? Yet, Chase...

...idea of a more perfect Union, more perfect than the Articles that were declared to be "perpetual." "It is difficult to convey the idea of indissoluble...a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?" But ours was a Union made up of states, states that had an individual existence, and the right of selfgovernment....

...Articles of Confederation, the Union was solemnly declared to be perpetual. And when these articles were found to be inadequate to the exigencies of the country,...Constitution was ordained 'to form a more perfect Union.' " 1 The League was an entirely new organization, not preceded by any previous confederation. It was,...

...order to 'form a more perfect union'. After referring to these two provisions, Chase CJ concluded: 'It is difficult to convey the idea of indissoluble...indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?'5 In analysing the decision in Texas \. White it is important to understand what Chase CJ meant...

...other things, that the more perfect Union it produced would be no less dissoluble than its antecedent. "It is difficult to convey the idea of indissoluble unity more clearly than by these words," Chase explained. "What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?" (725)....

...Confederation. By these the Union was solemuly declared to be ' perpetual.' And when these articles were found to be inadequate to the exigencies of the country,...words. What can be indissoluble if a perpetual union, wade more perfect, is not ? But the perpetuity and indissoluWUty of the Union and alterable by them...