Civil war Quote by Joseph Story Download Open image “If the Constitution is a compact, then the States have a right to secede.” — Joseph Story ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civil war Compact Constitution Ifs States War
If the States do not have the right to secede, then they have no rights at all. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The States then being the parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity, that there can be no tribunal above their authority, to decide in the last resort, whether the compact made by them be violated; and consequently that as the parties to it, they must themselves decide in the last resort, such questions… — James Madison Copy Share
“Owing its ratification to the law of a State, it has been contended that the same authority might repeal the law by which it was ratified. However gross a heresy it may be to maintain that a party to a compact has a right to revoke that compact, the doctrine itself has had respectable advocates. The possibility of a question… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
...secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The sovereignty of the States is the language of the Confederacy and not the language of the Constitution. The latter contains the emphatic words.… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
“the Southern States rebelled against the usurpation of their rights under the Constitution as sovereign states. It’s critical to remember that, until that time,… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such… — Lyman Trumbull Copy Share Image
No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“One of the surest means of preserving peace is always to be prepared for war.” — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
This provision (the 4th Amendment) speaks for itself. Its plain object is to secure the perfect enjoyment of that great right of the common… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
At the time of the adoption of the constitution, and of the amendment to it, now under consideration [i.e., the First Amendment], the general,… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence. — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Be brief, be pointed, let your matter standLucid in order, solid and at hand;Spend not your words on trifles but condense;Strike with the mass… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but ...… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
There is not a truth to be gathered from history more certain, or more momentous, than this: that civil liberty cannot long be separated… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace. — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
[I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the especial duty… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
“Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
“Whatever happened in those more than one hundred years, from the time my great-great-great grandfather studied law to the time when my own father… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“AUSTRALIA, LIKE THE UNITED STATES, experienced a different path to inclusive institutions than the one taken by England. The same revolutions that shook England… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“These are all good things, I said. But no one knows where your country is or who you are. You don't have a familiar… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“Thinking about the weather was one way of shutting out of his mind the appalling bloody human mess sprawled out over the bed of… — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars;… — Homer Bone Copy Share Image
“ “In the South, football is confused with religion, chivalry, the Civil War, and women.” -Diane Roberts, The Quotable South ” — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
“By the following morning, September 15, Jackson had positioned nearly fifty guns on Maryland Heights and at the base of Loudoun Heights. Then he… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“Civil wars...are the best wars for the writer...because they have a way of continuing long afterwl wars between nations are resolved; because, with the… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
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