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 unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the... Macmillan's Magazine - 第 277 頁1865完整檢視 - 關於此書
| John George Nicolay - 1902 - 604 頁
...Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must be protected, yet...might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed... | |
| William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 476 頁
...Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must be protected, yet...might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - 1902 - 888 頁
...Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the Nation, and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must be protected ;...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... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 394 頁
...Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected, yet...might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, Paul McClelland Angle, Earl Schenck Miers - 1992 - 692 頁
...Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law life and limb must be protected; yet...life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. 600 I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable... | |
| Gabor S. Boritt - 1992 - 273 頁
...preserve the Constitution?" And if that was too abstract, he explained so that no one could misunderstand: "Often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb." So it was in the Civil War. And so it was in the Second World War. Schlesinger, the scholar who gave... | |
| Jeffrey Pfeffer - 1992 - 404 頁
...Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? ... I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional,...might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation . . . of the nation.20 Lessons to Be Unlearned Our ambivalence about power also comes... | |
| Charles J. McClain - 1994 - 528 頁
...power to wage war is the liower to wage war successfully."80 and (2) President Lincoln's homely words "by general law, life and limb must be protected,...a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb/'81 "This same argument of "prevention of conflict" was presented to the Supreme Court in Buchanan... | |
| Maeva Marcus - 1994 - 422 頁
...the Constitution. For example, "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 life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become... | |
| Merrill D. Peterson - 1995 - 493 頁
...constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve the constitution? ... I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional,...might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed... | |
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