 | Orville James Victor - 1861 - 586 pages
...objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was, ' to form a more perfect Union.' Bat, if the destruction of the Union, by one or by a part...of the States, be lawfully possible, the Union is lea than before — the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetnity. . "It follows, from... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1861 - 580 pages
...expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects...ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to farm a more perfect union." But if destruction of the Union by one, or by a part only, of the States,... | |
 | Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation, in 1778. And finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects...for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "<o form a mart perfect union."' Tf But if destruction of the Union, by one, or by a part only, of... | |
 | 1861 - 456 pages
...expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation, in 1778. And finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects...for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "io form a more perfect union." ^f But if destruction of the Union, by one, or by a part only, of the... | |
 | 1862 - 200 pages
...engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778, and, finally, in 1789. " One of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing...Constitution was to form a more perfect Union ; but if destruction by one, or by a part only, of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less than before... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - 1864 - 210 pages
...expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation, in 1778 ; and, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects...follows from these views that no State, upon its own me-e motion, can lawfully get out of the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1864 - 462 pages
...expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects...Constitution was/' to form a more perfect union." But if destruction of the Union, by one, or by a part only, of the States, be lawfully possible, the Union... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 492 pages
...expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects...Constitution was " to form a more perfect union." But if destruction of the Union, by one, or by a part only, of the States, be lawfully po'ssible, the Union... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 514 pages
...expressly plighted and engaged that it should bo perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects...Constitution was " to form a more perfect union." But if destruction of the Union, by one, or by a part only, of the States, be lawfully possible, the Union... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 518 pages
...objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was " to form a more perfect union." But if destruction of the Union, by one, or by a part only,...the States, be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows, from... | |
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It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally,... 
