...theory of the southern states in terms that would hardly have been so categorical before the Civil War: The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to...indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States. When, therefore, Texas became one of the United States, she entered into an indissoluble relation....

...from state sovereignty; moreover, Chief Justice Chase expressed a truism when in 1 869 he opined that "the Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to...indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States" (Texas v. White, 19 L.Ed. 227). This postbellum decision, written by an arch nationalist, certainly...

...essential to separate and independent existence.'" "The preservation of the States," Chase concluded, and the maintenance of their governments, are as much...indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States. 1 The aphoristic quality of Chase's dictum disposed it to repetition; and indeed, "'an indestructible...

...precedent on point, specifically the Supreme Court's pronouncement in Texas v. White, 1 which held that "[t]he Constitution, in all its provisions, looks...indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States." Second, and more important, Sunstein says that secession is barred by principles of constitutionalism....

...of separate and independent autonomy to the States, through their union under the Constitution, but it may be not unreasonably said that the preservation...indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States. The international import of the Constitution of a more perfect Union was not lost upon Benjamin Franklin,...

...in the supremacy clause of the Constitution. As Chief Justice Chase wrote in Texas v. White (1869), "The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to...indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States." But what we need also to recognize in the present context is what may be called the true dynamics of...

...But he made it very clear that Southern secession had not reduced the region to a conquered province: "the Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to...indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States." 43 It follows, then, that before he follows Stevens and Sumner, the hypertextualist must repudiate...

...Race, Slavery, State authority Chief Justice Salmon Chase Texas v. White, 74 US 700, 725-726 (1868) The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to...indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States. When, therefore, Texas became one of the United States, she entered into an indissoluble relation....

...Amendment's due process provisions. In Texas v. White,156 the Chase court delivered the famous dictum that "The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to...indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States." The Court established the juridical basis for dealing with the Civil War and Reconstruction policy...

...not, the justices, echoing Lincoln's view that the states could not secede from the Union, ruled that the "Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to...an indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States."45 Stephen J. Field, the Court's spokesman in the test oath cases, apparently felt that the...