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" If one of the States chose to withdraw its name from the contract, it would be difficult to disprove its right of doing so; and the Federal Government would have no means of maintaining its claims directly, either by force or by right. "
The Life of Richard Cobden - Page 846
by John Morley - 1906 - 985 pages
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Democracy in America, Volume 1

Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1839 - 500 pages
...the States chose to withdraw its name from the compact, it would be difficult to disprove its right of doing so ; and the Federal Government would have no means of maintaining its claims directly, either by force or by right. In order to enable the Federal Government easily to conquer...
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The New Englander, Volumes 19-20

Criticism - 1861 - 1148 pages
...the states chose to withdraw its name from the contract it would be difficult to disprove its right of doing so ; and the Federal Government would have no means of maintaining its cltimi directly either by force or right" p. 867. Again : " It appears to me unquestionable that if...
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Democracy in America: In Relation to Political Institutions

Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1850 - 488 pages
...the states chose to withdraw its name from the compact, it would be difficult to disprove its right of doing so ; and the federal government would have no means of maintaining its claims directly, either by force or by right. In order to enable the federal government easily to conquer...
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The Republic of the United States of America: And Its Political Institutions ...

Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1851 - 954 pages
...the states chose to withdraw its name from the compact, it would be difficult to disprove its right of doing so ; and the federal government would have no means of maintaining its claims directly, either by force or by right. In order to enable the federal government easily to conquer...
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American Institutions and Their Influence

Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1854 - 492 pages
...the states chose to withdraw its name from the compact, it would be difficult to disprove its right of doing so ; and the federal government would have no means of maintaining its claims directly, either by force or by right. In order to enable the federal government easily to conquer...
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Democracy in America, Volume 15

Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1899 - 514 pages
...the States chose to withdraw its name from the contract, it would be difficult to disprove its right of doing so ; and. the Federal Government would have no means of maintaining" its claims directly, either by force or by right. In order to enable the Federal Government easily to conquer...
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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society

Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1906 - 624 pages
...the States chose to withdraw its name from the contract, it would be difficult to disprove its right of doing so; and the Federal Government would have...among the States united by the Federal tie there may he some which have a great interest in maintaining the Union on which their prosperity depends ; and...
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The American union; its effect on national character and policy [&c.].

James Spence - Secession - 1861 - 398 pages
...one of the States choose, to withdraw from the compact, it would be difficult to disprove its right of doing so, and the Federal Government would have no means of maintaining its claims directly, either by force or right." And the condition of facts thus described, has not apparently...
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The American Question, and how to Settle it

Charles Tennant - United States - 1863 - 330 pages
...one of the States choose to withdraw from the compact, it would be difficult to disprove its right of doing so, and the Federal Government would have no means of maintaining its claims directly, either by force or right." A Federal Republic is a partnership of republics, or States, and...
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America and Her Commentators: With a Critical Sketch of Travel in the United ...

Henry Theodore Tuckerman - History - 1864 - 478 pages
...the States desires to withdraw its name from the compact, it would be difficult to disprove its right of doing so, and the Federal Government would have...means of maintaining its claims either by force or right." Even this experiment has never yet been tried, no legitimate and free expression of the desire...
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