 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
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 540 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. President - Presidents - 1897 - 820 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 of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is tess perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1897 - 858 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...Articles of Confederation in 1778. And finally, in 178 7, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was ' ' to form... | |
 | Henry Alexander White - United States - 1897 - 588 pages
...the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should...perpetual by the Articles of Confederation in 1778." President Lincoln ventured to designate a committee's recommendation in 1774 as a legal instrument... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 602 pages
...violate it — break it, so to speak — but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it ? 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 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 - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1899 - 196 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, having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows from... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1899 - 110 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... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 208 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... | |
 | James Daniel Richardson, United States. President - Presidents - 1899 - 818 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...for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was ' ' lo form a more perfect Union." But if destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the... | |
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