...9 It was thus a familiar context in which Lincoln set his First Inaugural Address. First asserting, "the Union is perpetual, confirmed by the history of the Union itself," Lincoln then emphasized Union's precedence over the corpus of Polity. 50 In so doing, he brought into...

...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...contemplation the Union is perpetual, confirmed by the hiatory of the Union itself. The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact,...

...Contemplation and perpetuity were repeatedly linked. "Descending from these general principles," he said, "we find the proposition that in legal contemplation...perpetual confirmed by the history of the Union itself" (73). At the core of the speech is an implied question about the continued life of the Union and the...

...Lincoln speaking at his inauguration. Descending from these general principles, we find the propositions that, in legal contemplation, the Union is perpetual,...was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association of 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured,...

...Lincoln's. It most often took the form of a rhetorical question. Examples include, "One party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak — but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?"; and "Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation...

...as a contract be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made rt? One party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it? 1997 J. Weston Walch, Publisher 17 Abraham Lincoln (continued} Focus on US History: The Era of the...

...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...perpetual confirmed by the history of the Union itself. . . . But if destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible,...

...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? . . . It follows from these views that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of...

...of these functions and powers. However, Lincoln was also generally opposed to the idea of secession: "we find the proposition that in legal contemplation...perpetual confirmed by the history of the Union itself," and "the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy." If the anarchism succeeded, it would...

...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? Now Lincoln considers what follows from the hypothesis, which he of course rejects, that the United...