| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1986 - 1282 Seiten
...their efforts to meet the needs of their people and manage their own affairs. As Justice Chase wrote, "the Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to...indestructible Union composed of indestructible States." If there were one administration that understood this idea, I thought it would be this one. Three years... | |
| Frederick J. Blue - 1987 - 452 Seiten
...Constitution," said Chase, "was ordained 'to form a more perfect Union.' " The fundamental law, he continued, "in all its provisions looks to an indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States." Texas, in joining the Union, had "entered into an indissoluble relation," as much so "as the union... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - 1989 - 1352 Seiten
...States was as complete, as perpetual, and as Indissoluble as the union between the original States." "The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to...indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States." The so-called "Commonwealth" is nothing more than a name, a label, attached to a category of indeterminate... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - 1990 - 332 Seiten
...States was as complete, as perpetual, and as indissoluble as the union between the original States." "The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to...indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States." The so-called "Commonwealth" is nothing more than a name, a label, attached to a category of indeterminate... | |
| John Niven - 1995 - 575 Seiten
...existed in its external relations. Chase closed this argument with one of his rhetorical flourishes that the Constitution "in all its provisions looks to an...indestructible Union composed of indestructible states." Texas recovered the bonds whose principal and interest were redeemable in gold, and Chase made his... | |
| Marshall L. DeRosa - 226 Seiten
...from state sovereignty; moreover, Chief Justice Chase expressed a truism when in 1 869 he opined that "the Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to...indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States" (Texas v. White, 19 L.Ed. 227). This postbellum decision, written by an arch nationalist, certainly... | |
| Don M. McRae - 1996 - 534 Seiten
...theory of the southern states in terms that would hardly have been so categorical before the Civil War: The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to...indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States. When, therefore, Texas became one of the United States, she entered into an indissoluble relation.... | |
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