| Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1977 - 292 páginas
...the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And finally,...of the States, be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows... | |
| Kenneth M. Stampp - 1981 - 342 páginas
...States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation of 1778. And finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects...establishing the Constitution, was "to form a more perfect union."4 In the secessionists' interpretation of history, the states are older than the Union— in... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime - 1982 - 812 páginas
...the faith of all the then thirteen states expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation In 1778. And, "finally,...1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and es* Public Statutes at Large. Volume 1, page 264 givn the text of the act of 1792. and page* 424-429,... | |
| Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - 1989 - 524 páginas
...This collection contains the most important source for the various working sheets of the Inaugural. the declared objects for ordaining and establishing...Constitution, was 'to form a more perfect Union.' " Although Lincoln's support of his proposition was factual, the facts themselves carried with them... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, Paul McClelland Angle, Earl Schenck Miers - 1992 - 692 páginas
...expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. 383 And finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects...of the states, be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows... | |
| Garry Wills - 1992 - 324 páginas
...the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And finally,...Constitution, was "to form a more perfect union." [SW 2.217-18] Of course, the "states' rights" school of constitutional interpretation did not — and... | |
| Thomas W. Benson - 1993 - 272 páginas
...expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778"; finally "in 1787, one of the declared objects for...Constitution, was 'to form a more perfect Union.'" Although Lincoln's support of his proposition was factual, the facts themselves carried with them the... | |
| Thomas H. Naylor, William H. Willimon - 1997 - 300 páginas
...expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation, in 1777. And, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects...the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union." 16. Morse, p. 431. 17. Morse, p. 433. Notwithstanding the conditions imposed on the six former Confederate... | |
| Mark E. Brandon - 1998 - 278 páginas
...Independence and Articles of Confederation, to the Constitution, whose Preamble stated its object to be "to form a more perfect Union." "But if destruction...of the States, be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity." 2" Third,... | |
| Owen Collins - 1999 - 464 páginas
...the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And finally,...only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows... | |
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