...those constituted like ours," was "the attachment of the People," in 1838 he urged "every American" to "swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate...in the least particular, the laws of the country." Such "reverence for the laws" would enhance citizens' sense of mutual connectedness, Lincoln argued...

...delivered after a mulatto man in St. Louis was burned to death in mob-style violence, Lincoln said: Let every American, every lover of liberty, every...country; and never to tolerate their violation by others . . . Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles...

...the population against this disaster: Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution,...and never to tolerate their violation by others... Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father. . . Let reverence...

...revolutionary heritage obliged the young to oppose all threats to the republic. "Let every American . . . swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate...in the least particular, the laws of the country. ... let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation . . . ; and let the...

...against this danger? "The answer is simple. Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution,...country; and never to tolerate their violation by others."2 Lincoln waxed eloquent in this speech about obedience to law. "Let reverence for the laws,...

...an American Caesar was for the people to adhere to a "political religion" of obedience to law, "to swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate...and never to tolerate their violation by others." Even bad laws should be obeyed until they could be removed from the statute books. No grievance was...

...consequence." The third paragraph suggests an answer: "Let every lover of liberty take an oath never to violate the laws of the country and never to tolerate their violation by others." 6. A. A wooden gun has the appearance of being real, but is in fact powerless. The author is pointing...

...fortify against it?" The answer is simple. Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution,...tolerate their violation by others. As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution...

...thereby secure the foundation of free government, is in one sense "simple" — a matter of swearing "by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate...country; and never to tolerate their violation by others" (1.112). But the deeper motions of Lincoln's argument work from the conviction that dutiful words and...

...or die by suicide." Lincoln exhorted: "Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution,...in the least particular, the laws of the country." Let reverence for the Constitution and the laws "become the political religion of the nation."'14 Noteworthy...