| Harry V. Jaffa - 2004 - 574 páginas
...the fugitive slave clause of the Constitution resemble, but are not identical to, those for honoring the right of each state to order and control its own domestic institutions. In both instances it is the law of the Constitution, and fidelity to the Constitution is a sine qua... | |
| Lowell Harrison - 2000 - 346 páginas
...compensated emancipation. In his 1861 inaugural address Lincoln had stressed the Republican acceptance of the right of each state "to order and control its own domestic institutions," and he reaffirmed that pledge whenever possible. Yet there were doubters in Kentucky from the start... | |
| Jeffrey F. Meyer - 2001 - 382 páginas
...the Union. He did not believe that as president he was constitutionally empowered to interfere with the "right of each State to order and control its...institutions according to its own judgment exclusively." But he did oppose any efforts to secede from the Union as equally unconstitutional. He urged caution... | |
| Kermit L. Hall - 2001 - 806 páginas
...and Whigs, acknowledged the obligation to preserve "the rights of the States . . . inviolate . . . , and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions . . . exclusively, 'rights' essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance... | |
| Jeannie M. Whayne, Thomas A. Deblack, Morris S. Arnold - 2002 - 474 páginas
...resistance to the extension of slavery. Its platform also denounced John Brown's raid and recognized the right of each state "to order and control its own domestic institutions." Lincoln had already struck a moderate tone, stating his view that slavery was "an evil, not to be extended,... | |
| 2003 - 730 páginas
...party affiliations, the people of Connecticut still hold, as Jefferson, and Lincoln after him held, "that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend." These last words are not mine ; they are taken from the Republican Platform of 1860, as quoted by Lincoln... | |
| Edward L. Ayers - 2003 - 512 páginas
...all schemes for disunion, come from whatever source they may"; the next plank held that "the rights of each State, to order and control its own domestic...of power on which the perfection and endurance of her political faith depends." Slavery, in other words, could not be molested where it already existed.... | |
| Gerry Mackie - 2003 - 508 páginas
...implicit threat of secession.3 The Republican platform maintained inviolate the rights of the states, especially the right of each state to order and control its own domestic institutions; in other words, it guaranteed slavery in the slave states. The Republicans rejected the new dogma that... | |
| Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 456 páginas
...treason, which it is the imperative duty of an indignant people sternly to rebuke and forever silence. 4. That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends ; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory,... | |
| John Elliott Cairnes - 2004 - 414 páginas
...the cry. In what is called the Chicago platform, Mr. Lincoln thus marks out his political creed: — "The maintenance inviolate of THE RIGHTS OF THE STATES,...the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends." The words "domestic institutions," in the above extract, constitute the conventional phrase... | |
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