...have conducted it through many perils, and generally with great success. Yet, with all this scope of precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the...universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these Sates is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national...

...conducted it through many perils; and, generally, with great success. Yet, with all this scope for precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the...heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. Lincoln now approaches the theme of our first chapter. Can ballots in all cases succeed bullets as...

...the extent of the difference, is no democracy. Speech on Slavery and Democracy (1858?) 1989:484. 2 I hold, that in contemplation of universal law. and...Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Per132 LINDBLOM, CHARLES E. petuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national...

...subject were inviolable.37 Referring to the secession states in his inaugural address, Lincoln said, "I hold that in contemplation of universal law and...Constitution the Union of these states is perpetual." He also said, "I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery....

...the "universal law," which justifies Lincoln's faith that "the Union of these States is perpetual": "I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of theses States is perpetual" (582). Even within fifteen years, less than a generation, language such...

...ingredient of perfection, his argument from the preamble is plausible enough. Accordingly, Lincoln held "that in contemplation of universal law, and of the...Constitution, the Union of these states is perpetual." Having reached that conclusion, he suddenly changed his argument and thereby almost conceded that the...

...southern states had no good reason to secede, and then proceeded to show that they had no right to secede, that "in contemplation of universal law, and of the...Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual." Whatever might be said of the natural right of the people of a state to do what the American people...

...enforced by national or by state authority; but surely that difference is not a very material one . . . A disruption of the Federal Union heretofore only...contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, die Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental...

...when lawfully demanded, for whatever cause — as cheerfully to one section as to another. . . . "/ now enter upon the same task for the brief constitutional...of four years under great and peculiar difficulty." I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations and with no purpose to construe the Constitution...

...have conducted it through many perils, and generally with great success. Yet, with all this scope for precedent, I now enter upon the same task, for the...constitutional term of four years, under great and peculiar difficulties. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted....