 The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. 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...  Annual Register - Page 212edited by - 1862Full view - About this book
 | Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...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...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 is... | |
 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 416 pages
...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...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 is... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...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...the Constitution, was "to form a more perfect Union. " [14] But if destruction of the Union, by one, or by a part only, of the States, be lawfully possible,... | |
 | Moorhead Kennedy, Ralph Gordon Hoxie, Brenda Repland - Political Science - 332 pages
...understood this, Lincoln said the nation could not indefinitely exist "half slave and half free."3 for ordaining and establishing the Constitution, was 'to form a more perfect union'." Why was Lincoln categorically opposed to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise; categorically opposed... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 1995 - 188 pages
...British rule. The Union was further matured, he continued, "and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation. And finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution,... | |
 | Sabas H. Whittaker M. F. a., Sabas Whittaker, M.F.A. - African Americans - 2003 - 367 pages
...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...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 is... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 pages
...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...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 is... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - Philosophy - 2003 - 852 pages
...Declaration of Independence in 1 776. It was further matured and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should...Constitution, was "to form a more perfect union." Story's (and Lincoln's) history aimed at establishing the certain principle that the Constitution was... | |
 | Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - Law - 2004 - 502 pages
...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...Constitution was "TO FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION." But if the destaiction of the Union by one or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is... | |
 | Sonja Puntscher Riekmann, Monika Mokre, Michael Latzer - Democracy - 2004 - 364 pages
...the Union. This type of argument was invoked by Abraham Lincoln in his first inaugural speech: ยป... in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining...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... | |
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