...269 (Roy P. Easler ed., 1953). 57 See LOCKE, supra note 48, at §§ 221-43. 58 As Lincoln explained, "no government proper, ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination." LINCOLN, supra note 56, at 264. 59 Id at 269. 60 Henigan, supra note 53, at 1 10. 61 Id. at 129. 62...

...attempted. I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed,...action not provided for in the instrument itself. Again: If the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature...

...attempted. I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these Sates is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed,...National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever, as being impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself....

...and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Per132 LINDBLOM, CHARLES E. petuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law...provision in its organic law for its own termination. First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1861. 1989:217. 3 Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of...

...very opposite of the "perpetual union" contemplated by Madison and affirmed by Lincoln, who declared that "[n]o government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination."29 26. Ustava Ceskoslovenske republiky [Constitution] l50/l948 Sb., translated in Constitutions...

...of the Articles with the more perfect Union of the Constitution. Lincoln himself will tell us that "perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments."39 This is as much as to say that all the governments that have ceased to exist did so...

...that he needed to place his historical interpretation beyond dispute. "Perpetuity," he now postulated, "is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental...provision in its organic law for its own termination." Therefore, he could contend quite accurately that secessionists could not destroy the Union "except...

...windows along the route of travel, and with sharpshooters strategically posted on buildings about town. "It is safe to assert that no government proper, ever...provision in its organic law for its own termination," said Lincoln when he arose to deliver his First Inaugural Address. After a review of the problems faced...

...constitutional right to secede from the Union, or, as Lincoln put it, it is safe to assert that no government "ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination." He could not have believed that his argument, good as it was, would carry any weight with the likes...

..."I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the Union of these states is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed,...by some action not provided for in the instrument." Lincoln believed in a "do-something" government and a government that provides security for its citizens,...