...authority? The Constitution does not expressly say. May Congress prohibit slavery in the territories? The Constitution does not expressly say. Must Congress...majority must, or the government must cease. There is no other alternative; for continuing the government, is acquiescence on one side or the other. If a minority,...

...authority? The Constitution does not expressly say. May Congress prohibit slavery in the territories? The Constitution does not expressly say. Must Congress...majority must, or the government must cease. There is no other alternative; for continuing the government, is acquiescence on one side or the other. If a minority,...

...authority? The Constitution does not expressly say. May Congress prohibit slavery in the Territories? The Constitution does not expressly say. Must Congress...Territories? The Constitution does not expressly say. (74) These areas of ambiguity, he contended, were the issues that divided the nation, and he did not...

...authority? The Constitution does not expressly say. May Congress prohibit slavery in the territories? The Constitution does not expressly say. Must Congress...territories? The Constitution does not expressly say. 385 From questions of this class spring all our constitutional controversies, and we divide upon them...

...authority? The Constitution does not expressly say. May Congress prohibit slavery in the territories? The Constitution does not expressly say. Must Congress...majority must, or the government must cease. There is no other alternative; for continuing the government, is acquiescence on one side or the other. If a minority,...

...reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 4, p. 268. Rutgers University Press ( 1953, 1990). If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must or the government must cease. "First Inaugural Address," March 4, 1861, reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 4, p....

...objects, there will be no invasion — no using of force against, or among the people anywhere.... If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the government must cease.... Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy. A majority, held in restraint by...

...authority? The Constitution does not expressly say. May Congress prohibit slavery in the territories? The Constitution does not expressly say. Must Congress...majority must, or the government must cease. There is no other alterative; for continuing the government, is acquiescence on one side or the other. . . . Unanimity...

...authority? The Constitution does not expressly say. May Congress prohibit slavery in the Territories? The Constitution does not expressly say. Must Congress...majority must, or the Government must cease. There is no other alternative, for continuing the Government is acquiescence on one side or the other. If a minority...

...would jeopardize control over the rest of them.) May Congress prohibit slavery in the territories? The Constitution does not expressly say. Must Congress...the territories? The Constitution does not expressly say.348 The Supreme Court was taken to have ruled in Dred Scott that Congress could not prohibit slavery...