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" The Constitution regulates our stewardship ; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes... "
Abraham Lincoln and Men of War-times: Some Personal Recollections of War and ... - Page 34
by Alexander Kelly McClure - 1892 - 496 pages
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Reports of Civil and Criminal Cases Decided by the ..., Volume 6; Volume 154

Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1002 pages
...rendered a few years before was openly assailed, and such declarations as the following were common: "There is a higher law than the Constitution which regulates our authority over the domain. Slavery must be abolished and we must do it." — WH Seward. "The Union is a lie. The American Union...
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The New Englander, Volume 8

Criticism - 1850 - 676 pages
...the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. " But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which...heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator 01 the Universe. We are his stewards, and must so discharge our trust as to secure in the highest attainable...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 17

Literature - 1851 - 824 pages
...United States to exclude slavery from the soil of California, he proceeds to inform us that, " There ia a. higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain and devotee it to the same noble purposes."* " We deem the principle of the law for the recapture of fugitives,...
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The Law-abiding Conscience, and the Higher Law Conscience: With Remarks on ...

Samuel Thayer Spear - 1850 - 36 pages
...defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a Idyker law than the Constitution, which regnlates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a part—no inconsiderable part—of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator...
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History of the Polk Administration

Lucien Bonaparte Chase - Mexican War, 1846-1848 - 1850 - 574 pages
...uncertainty exists. That Constitution which was framed by the wisdom law of nature and of nations." " But there is a higher law than the Constitution which regulates our authority over the llomnin, and devotes it to the name noble purposes." — Speech of Mr. II. Neicani, US Senate, March,...
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The Christian reformer; or, Unitarian magazine and review [ed. by ..., Volume 7

Robert Aspland - 1851 - 780 pages
...the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, »nd to liberty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which...bestowed upon them by the Creator of the universe. AVe are his stewards, and must so discharge our trust as to secure, in the highest attainable degree,...
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Lives of the Governors of the State of New York

John Stilwell Jenkins - Governors - 1851 - 910 pages
...defence, to welfare, and to liberty. " But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulatei our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the...bestowed upon them by the Creator of the Universe. We are hia stewards, and must BO discharge oar trust u to secure in the highest attainable degree their happiness."...
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Lives of the Governors of the State of New York

John Stilwell Jenkins - Governors - 1851 - 872 pages
...the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to liberty. " But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which...over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposea The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed...
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The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 1

William Henry Seward - United States - 1853 - 658 pages
...; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a Higher Law than the Constitution, which...regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to tlic tame noble purposes. The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of...
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The Nebraska Question

1854 - 136 pages
...stewardship; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to liherty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which...authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same nohle purposes. The territory is a part, no inconsiderahle part, of the common heritage of mankind,...
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