 ... Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental 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 to execute all the express provisions...  Abraham Lincoln: A History - Σελίδα 331των John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 470 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1867 - 384 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1861 - 580 σελίδες
...termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever — it being impossible to destroy...peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it ? One party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to... | |
 | Orville James Victor - 1861 - 586 σελίδες
...termination. Continne to execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever — it being .impossible to destroy...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... | |
 | Charles Lempriere - 1861 - 336 σελίδες
...execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure for ever, it being impossible to destroy it except by some action...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... | |
 | Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 σελίδες
...termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever — it being impossible to destroy...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... | |
 | 1861 - 456 σελίδες
...termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever — it being impossible to destroy...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... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - 1862 - 764 σελίδες
...termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever, it being impossible to destroy it...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... | |
 | 1862 - 200 σελίδες
...termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever, it being impossible to destroy it...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 - 1862 - 910 σελίδες
...execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure for ever, it being impossible to destroy it except by some action...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... | |
 | 1897 - 678 σελίδες
...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,...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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