 | 1866 - 278 Seiten
...objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was to form a more perfect Union. But if the destruction of the Union by one or by a part only...the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less than before. the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows from these views... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1866 - 222 Seiten
...the declared objects for establishing the Constitution was to form a more perfect Union. But, if the destruction of the Union by one or by a part only...the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less than i before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows from these... | |
 | 1866 - 288 Seiten
...objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was to form a more perfect Union. But if the destruction of the Union by one or by a part only...the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows from these views... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 524 Seiten
...objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was to form a more perfect union. But, if the destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union js less perfect than before; the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. " It follows... | |
 | 1868 - 422 Seiten
...objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was to form a more perfect Union. But if the destruction of the Union by one or by a part only...the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element oi perpetuity. It follows from these views... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1888 - 990 Seiten
...Mr. Lincoln adopted this suggestion,and in addition remodeled the whole sentence, so as to read : " The Union is less perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity. " " The first half of this sentence originally closed : " ordinances to that effect are legally nothing,"... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - 1872 - 386 Seiten
...objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was to form a more perfect Union. But if the destruction of the Union by one or by a part only...the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows from these views... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 604 Seiten
...objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was to form a more perfect Union. But, if the destruction of the Union by one .or by a part only...the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows from these views... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - 1872 - 404 Seiten
...objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was to form a more perfect Union. But if the destruction of the Union by one or by a part only...the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows from these views... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1873 - 780 Seiten
...1787, one of the declared object* for ordaining ami establishing the Constitution was ' to form a mart perfect union.' " But if destruction of the Union by one, or by a part only, of the States, be lawfnllr possible, the Union is less perfect than before, the Constitution having lost the vital clement... | |
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Confederation, in 1778. And, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was, 'to form a more perfect Union. 
