| 1867 - 384 էջ
...governments. If the United States be not a compact proper, but an association of states in the nature of a contract merely, can it as a contract be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties to it ? " This is a more sound argument than the previous proposition. Each party, as we know, adhered... | |
| Charles Lempriere - 1861 - 336 էջ
...all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure for ever, it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not...proper, but an association of States in the nature of a contract merely, can it as a contract be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it... | |
| Orville James Victor - 1861 - 586 էջ
...the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever — it being .impossible to destroy it except by some action not...proper, but an association of States in the nature nf a contract merely, can it, at a contruct, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made... | |
| Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 էջ
...the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever — it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself. If Again, if the United States be not a Government proper, but an association of States in the nature... | |
| 1861 - 456 էջ
...the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever — it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself. ^f Again , if the United States be not a Government proper, but an association of States in the nature... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1862 - 910 էջ
...all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure for ever, it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not...proper, but an association of States in the nature of a contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made... | |
| Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - 1862 - 764 էջ
...all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever, it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not...proper, but an association of States in the nature of a contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made... | |
| 1862 - 200 էջ
...all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever, it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not...proper, but an association of States, in the nature of a compact merely, can it as a compact be peaceably unmade, by less than all the parties who made it... | |
| 1897 - 678 էջ
...perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national Governments. Again, if the United States be not a government proper,...as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all parties who make it? One party to a contract may violate it, break it, so to speak; but does it not... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 492 էջ
...the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever— it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not...who made it ? One party to a contract may violate it—break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it ? * Descending from... | |
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