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
| Larry D. Mansch - History - 2005 - 246 pages
...the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured and the faith of 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... | |
| Mel Friedman, Lina Miceli, Robert Bell, Michael Lee, Sally Wood, Adel Arshaghi, Suzanne Coffield, Michael McIrvin, Anita Price Davis, Research & Education Association, George DeLuca, Joseph Fili, Marilyn Gilbert, Bernice E. Goldberg, Leonard Kenner - Study Aids - 2005 - 886 pages
...further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it 55 should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation...the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union." 60 But if destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible, the... | |
| John Channing Briggs - History - 2005 - 396 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...perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. (4.265) Finally, in 1 787, one of die declared objects of ordaining and establishing the Constitution... | |
| Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson - History - 2005 - 197 pages
...Declaration of Independence in 1T76. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should...be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 17T8. And finally, in 1T87, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution... | |
| Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - History - 2005 - 318 pages
...circumstances, the practical meaning of a more perfect Union was disclosed in Lincoln's determination that "destruction of the Union, by one, or by a part only, of the States," was not "lawfully possible." It was the nature of the constitutional order "that no State, upon its... | |
| Ian Frederick Finseth - History - 2006 - 648 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... | |
| Norman Schofield - Political Science - 2006 - 3 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"... It follows from these views that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union,—that... | |
| Robert F. Hawes - Political Science - 2006 - 357 pages
...the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured and the faith of the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should...and establishing the Constitution, was "to form a wore perfect union." But if destruction of the Union, by one, or by a part only, of the States, be... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 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 be perpetual, by the Articles of the Confederation, in 1778 ; and, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing... | |
| Carl Sandburg - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 476 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." . . . It follows from these views that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfullv get out of... | |
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