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... The History of North America - Page 201905Full view - About this book
| 1867 - 384 pages
...governments. If the United States be not a compact proper, but an association of states in the nature of a contract merely, can it as a contract be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties to it ? " This is a more sound argument than the previous proposition. Each party, as we know, adhered... | |
| Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 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...but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it? ^j Descending from these general principles, we lind the proposition that, in legal contemplation,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - 1861 - 580 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...but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it? Descending from these general principles, we find the proposition that, in legal contemplation, the... | |
| 1861 - 456 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...but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it? ^f Descending from these general principles, we find the proposition that, in legal contemplation,... | |
| Orville James Victor - 1861 - 586 pages
...Government proper, but an association of States in the nature nf a contract merely, can it, at a contruct, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who...violate it, break it, so to speak, but does it not reqnire all to lawfully res' .in '1 it? Descending from these general principles, we find the proposition... | |
| Charles Lempriere - 1861 - 336 pages
...Again, if the United States be not a Government proper, but an association of States in the nature of a contract merely, can it as a contract be peaceably...unmade by less than all the parties who made it ? One parly to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak — but does it not require all to lawfully... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1862 - 910 pages
...Again, if the United States be not a Government proper, but an association of States in the nature of a contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably...but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it? Descending from these general principles, we find the proposition, that in legal contemplation the... | |
| Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - 1862 - 764 pages
...: if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of a contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably...but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it ? Descending from these general principles, we find the proposition that in legal contemplation the... | |
| 1862 - 200 pages
...government proper, but an association of States, in the nature of a compact merely, can it as a compact be peaceably unmade, by less than all the parties who made it ? One party to a compact may violate it, break it, so to speak, but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it ?... | |
| 1897 - 678 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 parties who make it? One party to a contract may violate it, break it, so to speak; but does it not... | |
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