 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
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 854 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 States be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before the Constitution, haying lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows from... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 268 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...only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is jess perfect than befpre the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity. Itjollows from.these_views... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1894 - 1068 pages
...Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and thefaith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should...Constitution was, " to form a more perfect Union." Again at Gettysburg he said : Fourscore and seven years ago [1776] our fathers brought forth on this... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 782 pages
...Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly pJighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles...the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union." ./ i_But if the destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 72 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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Morgan - Citizenship - 1895 - 376 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 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 be perpetual, by the Articles of the Confederation, in 1778; and, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 528 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." But if destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is... | |
 | Edward Payson Powell - Mathematics - 1897 - 488 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... | |
 | Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1897 - 504 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... | |
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