...their homes of peace, with the glorious satisfaction of having preserved us an undivided people, with the constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the nation. 7. That the spontaneous voice of true American gratitude cannot but exult over the success...

...the South is broken and they submit themselves to their duty to obey and our right to have them obey the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land." You thus affirm that, at the date of that proclamation, we were and now are engaged in a war, a just...

...character of the war on the part of the federal government, from one to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land, to a revolutionary war against the constitutional rights ami sovereignty of federal States, and virtually...

...General Government. But that is not the difficulty. Gentlemen would be willing to swear allegiance to the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land, and the laws made in pursuance thereof, provided each State had the right to decide for itself whether...

...counties in the State shall have been recognized by the election and appointment of officers rccogirzing the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land. 20 No person in the military, naval or marine service of the United States, shall be deemed a resident...

...legislators and judges of each State, are each and all bound, by solemn oath or affirmation, to uphold the Constitution of the United States as " the supreme law of the nothing more than " a firm league of friendship and perpetual union," as was that formed under the...

...not to discuss it, but to show the tendency of our people, in time of peace, to disregard or overlook the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the States over the interests delegated to the Union. Whether that compact was absolutely perfect or not,...

...the South is broken, and they submit themselves to their duty to obey, and our right to have obeyed, the Constitution of the United States, as ' the supreme law of the land ' But with what sense of right can we subdue them by arms to obey the Constitution as the supreme law...

...Texas came into the Union; and, in consideration of certain things promised to her, agreed to accept the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land. It was thus also, that the original thirteen States, in view of certain advantages expected by them,...

...denied to the States all power to impair their obligation of contracts, in whole or in part. Becognizing the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land, to which obedience is due from every good citizen, the committee does not hesitate to declare that...