 I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever...  The Words of Abraham Lincoln - Page 26by Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 57 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 580 pages
...law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue...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... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 pages
...that no Government proper ever had a provision, in its organic law, for its own termination. Continne to execute all the express provisions of our National...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 made... | |
 | Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...GovernStaatcn, r ' .... 4. M«n ments. It is safe to assert that no Government proper ever bad a provision 1881- in its organic law for its own termination. Continue...action not provided for in the instrument itself. If Again, if the United States be not a Government proper, but an association of States in the nature... | |
 | History, Modern - 1861 - 456 pages
...national Govern4. Min' ments. It is safe to assert that no Government proper ever had a provision iaei> in its organic law for its own termination. Continue...action not provided for in the instrument itself. ^f Again , if the United States be not a Government proper, but an association of States in the nature... | |
 | Charles Lempriere - United States - 1861 - 336 pages
...law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that Government proper never had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue...our National Constitution, and the Union will endure for ever, it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument... | |
 | United States - 1862 - 200 pages
...law of all national governments; it is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue...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 ?... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1862 - 910 pages
...law of all national Governments. It is safe to assert that no Government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue...our national Constitution, and the Union will endure for ever, it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 678 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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue...association of States in the nature of a contract merejy, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it ? One party... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 pages
...law of all National Governments. It is safe to assert that no Government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue...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?... | |
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