...fix terms fox the separation of the States, The people themselves can do this also if they choose ; but the Executive, as such, has nothing to do with...transmit it, unimpaired by him, to his successor. * * * Mr. Seward's reply in substance, said that his " official duties were cotffined subject to the...

...vineyards upon its sunny elopes. I ask, then, with President Lincoln in his first Inaugural Address: " Why should there not be a patient confidence in the...people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world ?" Shakespeare in his day complained that " Not a man, for being simply man, Hath any honor, but honor...

...fix terms for the separation of the States. The People themselves can do this also, if they choose; but the Executive, as such, has nothing to do with...transmit it, unimpaired by him, to his successor. #*#**## "* # * While the People retain their virtue and vigilance, no Administration, by any extreme...

...vineyards upon its sunny slopes. I ask, then, with President Lincoln in his first Inaugural Address: " Why should there not be a patient confidence in the...people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world ? " Shakespeare in his day complained that " Not a man, for being simply man. Hath any honor, but honor...

...fix terms for the separation of the States. The people themselves can do this also if they choose, but the Executive, as such, has nothing to do with...equal hope in the world? In our present differences is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal...

...fix terms for the separation of the States. The people themselves can do this also if they choose, but the Executive, as such, has nothing to do with...equal hope in the world? In our present differences is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal...

...to the people who inhabit it.... The chief magistrate derives all his authority from the people. ... His duty is to administer the present government,...transmit it, unimpaired by him, to his successor. —Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, 1861" The constitutional experiment that created the United...

...appropriately, efface himself. Lincoln insists on his simple caretaking role: "the executive['s] . . . duty is to administer the present government, as it...transmit it, unimpaired by him, to his successor" (AL, 4:270). Not only Lincoln, but all "the people" are bound by the Constitution in precisely the...

...reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 2, p. 532. Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990). Why should there not be a patient confidence in the...people? Is there any better or equal hope, in the world? "First Inaugural Address" — First Edition and Revisions, March 4, 1861, reprinted in Collected Works...

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