 | Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - 2005 - 318 páginas
...contract, be peaceably unmade, by less than all the parties 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?"81 The brevity of Lincoln's argument detracts nothing from its substance and persuasiveness. From... | |
 | Christopher Heath Wellman - 2005 - 236 páginas
...unmade, by less than all the parties who made it?" His answer was unequivocal: "[O]ne party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to rescind it?" (IV, 253) Just as Jones may not permissibly fail to deliver widgets to Smith if Smith... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 2006 - 896 páginas
...as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak ; but does...Association in 1774. It was matured and continued in the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen... | |
 | Robert F. Hawes - 2006 - 357 páginas
...as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties 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? Like Webster, Lincoln also held to the notion that only a consolidated nation-state can truly be considered... | |
 | Douglas Walton - 2007 - 13 páginas
...as a contract be peaceably unmade, by less than all the parties 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? This argument is quite a powerful one. It gives a reason why it should not be lawful for the southern... | |
 | Philip L. Ostergard - 2008 - 293 páginas
...a contract, be peaceably unmade, by less than all the parties 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? . . . The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association... | |
 | Jean Bethke Elshtain - 2008 - 352 páginas
...as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties 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?55 This takes us to where the sovereign rubber really hits the road, the "exception," the president's... | |
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Again, if the United States be not a Government 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. One party to a contract may violate it — break... 
