...government upon the earth. It forces us to ask: Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness ? Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...resist force employed for its destruction by force for its preservation. Mr. Lincoln in a few paragraphs exposed the treachery of the sophism by which...

...reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v.3, p.339. Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990). Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? If a commanding General finds a necessity to seize the farm of a private owner, for a pasture, an encampment,...

...upon the earth. It forces us to ask: 'Is there, in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness?' 'Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?"' 22 Reviewing for Congress the attitude of foreign powers toward the Civil War, Lincoln said that the...

...domestic foes. ... It forces us to ask: "Is there, in all republics, this inherent, and fatal weakness? Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" 38 Here we have the familiar argument that a modern state cannot allow territorial dismemberment by...

...the earth. It forces us to ask: “Is there, in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness?” “Must a government, of necessity, be too strong...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?” 2 ¿‘ Lincoln, “First Inaugural Address,” supra note 26, at 264—265. 2' Id. °° Id., at 270,...

...gIve and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth. 6352 Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain irs own existence? 6353 With high hope for the fliture¿ no prediction...

...by the same people-can or can not maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes. So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call...resist force employed for its destruction, by force for its preservation. This was not Mr. Lincoln's view alone. It was the view of the North. And when,...

..."liberty" meant. In his 1941 Jackson Day address he quoted Lincoln's question to Congress in 1861: " 'Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?' " "Lincoln answered that question as Jackson had answered it—not by words, but by deeds," Roosevelt...

...which Congress could not do in the way of ordinary legislation.” The firing on Sumter meant that “no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Govemmenl,” and Lincoln included under the rubric of “war power” the authorization “to suspend...

...the earth. It forces us to ask: “Is there, in all republics, this inherent, and fatal weakness?” “Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of it's own people, or too weak to maintain it's own existence?” So viewing the issue, the administration...