 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
 | Alexander Johnston - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1884 - 430 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... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - Presidential candidates - 1884 - 264 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... | |
 | Frank Abial Flower - Republican Party - 1884 - 662 pages
...Declaration of Independence in 177U. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should...in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining ami establishing the Constitution was to form a more perfect Union. But if the destruction of the Union... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - Presidential candidates - 1884 - 266 pages
...objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was ' ' to form a more perfect union. " But if destruction of the Union, by one, or by a part only,...the States, be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. State or States,... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...objects, for ordaining and establishing the Constitution, was ' to form a more perfect Union. ' But, if destruction of the Union by one, or by a part only,...the States, be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. " It follows, from... | |
 | United States - 1894 - 580 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...union. But if the destruction of the Union by one or a part only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less than before, the constitution having... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 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... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 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... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - United States - 1889 - 214 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... | |
 | United States - 1889 - 242 pages
...objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect union." But if destruction of the Union, by one, or by a part only,...the States, be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows, from... | |
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