 Was it possible to lose the Nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures otherwise...  Readings in American Government and Politics - Page 69by Charles Austin Beard - 1909 - 624 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Bookbinding - 1900 - 308 pages
...yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never...could not feel that, to the best of my ability, I had ever tried to preserve the Constitution, ifj to save slavery or any minor matter, I should permit the... | |
 | Joseph Hodges Choate - 1901 - 48 pages
...yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never...Constitution through the preservation of the nation. Eight or wrong, I assumed this ground and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the best of my ability,... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 pages
...and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I feel that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the... | |
 | Denton Jaques Snider - Political science - 1902 - 570 pages
...taken into account. President Lincoln in a famous letter once said: " Measures otherwise constitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the...Constitution through the preservation of the nation." He in substance declares that he had to violate the Constitution in order to save it — violate it... | |
 | Denton Jaques Snider - Political science - 1902 - 590 pages
...must be taken into account President Lincoln in af amou8 ^ -Measures otherwlse constitutional come lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation...Constitution through the preservation of the nation." He in substance declares that he had to violate the Constitution in order to save it — violate it... | |
 | Charles Edward Merriam - Political Science - 1903 - 392 pages
...as it exists behind the Constitution. This idea was expressed by Lincoln, when he made the assertion that " measures otherwise unconstitutional might become...Constitution, through the preservation of the Nation." l Evidence of the same spirit is given by the statement of Fisher that, "if the Union and the government... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 436 pages
...yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I feel that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn - Constitutional history - 1903 - 432 pages
...to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution. "So a measure, otherwise unconstitutional, may become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation...Constitution through the preservation of the nation." Any government, in order to preserve its own life, will construe its powers in such a way as to justify... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - World History - 1904 - 768 pages
...warrant or authority for the edict. Lincoln's own explanation was that " measures otherwise unlawful might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the...the nation Right or wrong, I assumed this ground." [1868-1868 A. i . i FREDERICKSBURG AND CHANCELLORSVILLE General Ambrose E. Burnside had been one of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - American literature - 1905 - 354 pages
...and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never...could not feel that to the best of my ability I had ever tried to preserve the Constitution if to save slavery or any minor matter I should permit the... | |
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