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Repeated efforts - beginning with the Missouri Compromise of 1821 - were made by such master moderates as Clay and Douglas to resolve the difference peacefully by compromise, rather than clear thought and timely action. | made | {
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Repeated efforts - beginning with the Missouri Compromise of 1821 - were made by such master moderates as Clay and Douglas to resolve the difference peacefully by compromise, rather than clear thought and timely action. | resolve | {
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Even so, confusion in this period gained such strength ( from compromise and other factors ) that it led to the bloodiest war of the Nineteenth century. | gained | {
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Even so, confusion in this period gained such strength ( from compromise and other factors ) that it led to the bloodiest war of the Nineteenth century. | led | {
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Nothing can show more than this the immensity of the danger to democratic peoples that lies in even relatively slight deviation from their true concept of sovereignty. | show | {
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Nothing can show more than this the immensity of the danger to democratic peoples that lies in even relatively slight deviation from their true concept of sovereignty. | lies in | {
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The present issue in Atlantica - whether to transform an alliance of sovereign nations into a federal union of sovereign citizens - resembles the American one of 1787 - 89 rather than the one that was resolved by Civil War. | transform | {
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The present issue in Atlantica - whether to transform an alliance of sovereign nations into a federal union of sovereign citizens - resembles the American one of 1787 - 89 rather than the one that was resolved by Civil War. | resembles | {
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The present issue in Atlantica - whether to transform an alliance of sovereign nations into a federal union of sovereign citizens - resembles the American one of 1787 - 89 rather than the one that was resolved by Civil War. | resolved | {
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And so I would only touch upon it now ( much as I have long wanted to write a book about it ). | touch | {
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And so I would only touch upon it now ( much as I have long wanted to write a book about it ). | write | {
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I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 - if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject. | think | {
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I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 - if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject. | is | {
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I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 - if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject. | pinpoint | {
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I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 - if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject. | went to war | {
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I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 - if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject. | see | {
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I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 - if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject. | is | {
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The difference came down to this : The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied - a Union of States. | came down | {
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The difference came down to this : The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied - a Union of States. | insisted | {
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The difference came down to this : The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied - a Union of States. | was | {
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The difference came down to this : The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied - a Union of States. | implied | {
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To their leaders the Constitution was a compact made by the people of sovereign states, who therefore retained the right to secede from it. | was | {
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To their leaders the Constitution was a compact made by the people of sovereign states, who therefore retained the right to secede from it. | made | {
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To their leaders the Constitution was a compact made by the people of sovereign states, who therefore retained the right to secede from it. | secede | {
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This right of the State, its upholders contended, was essential to maintain the federal balance and protect the liberty of the people from the danger of centralizing power in the Union government. | contended | {
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This right of the State, its upholders contended, was essential to maintain the federal balance and protect the liberty of the people from the danger of centralizing power in the Union government. | was | {
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This right of the State, its upholders contended, was essential to maintain the federal balance and protect the liberty of the people from the danger of centralizing power in the Union government. | maintain | {
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This right of the State, its upholders contended, was essential to maintain the federal balance and protect the liberty of the people from the danger of centralizing power in the Union government. | centralizing | {
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The champions of the Union maintained that the Constitution had formed, fundamentally, the united people of America, that it was a compact among sovereign citizens rather than states, and that therefore the states had no right to secede, though the citizens could. | maintained | {
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The champions of the Union maintained that the Constitution had formed, fundamentally, the united people of America, that it was a compact among sovereign citizens rather than states, and that therefore the states had no right to secede, though the citizens could. | formed | {
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The champions of the Union maintained that the Constitution had formed, fundamentally, the united people of America, that it was a compact among sovereign citizens rather than states, and that therefore the states had no right to secede, though the citizens could. | was | {
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The champions of the Union maintained that the Constitution had formed, fundamentally, the united people of America, that it was a compact among sovereign citizens rather than states, and that therefore the states had no right to secede, though the citizens could. | secede | {
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Writing to Speed on August 24, 1855, Lincoln made the latter point clear. | Writing | {
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Writing to Speed on August 24, 1855, Lincoln made the latter point clear. | made | {
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In homely terms whose timeliness is startling today, he thus declared his own right to secede. | is | {
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In homely terms whose timeliness is startling today, he thus declared his own right to secede. | declared | {
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`` We began by declaring that all men are created equal. | began | {
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We now practically read it, all men are created equal except negroes. | read | {
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We now practically read it, all men are created equal except negroes. | created | {
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When the Know-nothings get control, it will read, All men are created equal except negroes and foreigners and Catholics. | get | {
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When the Know-nothings get control, it will read, All men are created equal except negroes and foreigners and Catholics. | are | {
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When the Know-nothings get control, it will read, All men are created equal except negroes and foreigners and Catholics. | created | {
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When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty - to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy ''. | comes | {
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When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty - to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy ''. | prefer | {
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When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty - to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy ''. | emigrating | {
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When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty - to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy ''. | make | {
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When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty - to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy ''. | loving | {
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When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty - to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy ''. | taken | {
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When the Southern States exercised their `` right to secede '', they formed what they officially styled `` The Confederate States of America ''. | exercised | {
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When the Southern States exercised their `` right to secede '', they formed what they officially styled `` The Confederate States of America ''. | secede | {
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When the Southern States exercised their `` right to secede '', they formed what they officially styled `` The Confederate States of America ''. | formed | {
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When the Southern States exercised their `` right to secede '', they formed what they officially styled `` The Confederate States of America ''. | styled | {
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Dictionaries, as we have seen, still cite this government, along with the Articles of Confederation of 1781, as an example of a confederacy. | seen | {
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The fact is that the Southern Confederacy differed from the earlier one almost as much as the Federal Constitution did. | is | {
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It operated on, by and for the people individually just as did the Federal Constitution. | operated | {
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It made substantially the same division of power between the central and state governments, and among the executive, legislative and judicial branches. | made | {
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Many believe - and understandably - that the great difference between the Constitution of the Southern Confederacy and the Federal Constitution was that the former recognized the right of each state to secede. | was | {
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Many believe - and understandably - that the great difference between the Constitution of the Southern Confederacy and the Federal Constitution was that the former recognized the right of each state to secede. | recognized | {
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But though each of its members had asserted this right against the Union, the final Constitution which the Confederacy signed on March 11 - nearly a month before hostilities began - included no explicit provision authorizing a state to secede. | asserted | {
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But though each of its members had asserted this right against the Union, the final Constitution which the Confederacy signed on March 11 - nearly a month before hostilities began - included no explicit provision authorizing a state to secede. | signed | {
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But though each of its members had asserted this right against the Union, the final Constitution which the Confederacy signed on March 11 - nearly a month before hostilities began - included no explicit provision authorizing a state to secede. | began | {
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But though each of its members had asserted this right against the Union, the final Constitution which the Confederacy signed on March 11 - nearly a month before hostilities began - included no explicit provision authorizing a state to secede. | included | {
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Its drafters discussed this vital point but left it out of their Constitution. | discussed | {
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Its drafters discussed this vital point but left it out of their Constitution. | left | {
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Their President, Jefferson Davis, interpreted their Constitution to mean that it `` admits of no coerced association '', but this remained so doubtful that `` there were frequent demands that the right to secede be put into the Constitution ''. | interpreted | {
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Their President, Jefferson Davis, interpreted their Constitution to mean that it `` admits of no coerced association '', but this remained so doubtful that `` there were frequent demands that the right to secede be put into the Constitution ''. | mean | {
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Their President, Jefferson Davis, interpreted their Constitution to mean that it `` admits of no coerced association '', but this remained so doubtful that `` there were frequent demands that the right to secede be put into the Constitution ''. | admits | {
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Their President, Jefferson Davis, interpreted their Constitution to mean that it `` admits of no coerced association '', but this remained so doubtful that `` there were frequent demands that the right to secede be put into the Constitution ''. | remained | {
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Their President, Jefferson Davis, interpreted their Constitution to mean that it `` admits of no coerced association '', but this remained so doubtful that `` there were frequent demands that the right to secede be put into the Constitution ''. | were | {
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The Constitution of the Southern `` Confederation '' differed from that of the Federal Union only in two important respects : It openly, defiantly, recognized slavery - an institution which the Southerners of 1787, even though they continued it, found so impossible to reconcile with freedom that they carefully avoided ... | differed | {
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The Constitution of the Southern `` Confederation '' differed from that of the Federal Union only in two important respects : It openly, defiantly, recognized slavery - an institution which the Southerners of 1787, even though they continued it, found so impossible to reconcile with freedom that they carefully avoided ... | reconcile | {
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The Constitution of the Southern `` Confederation '' differed from that of the Federal Union only in two important respects : It openly, defiantly, recognized slavery - an institution which the Southerners of 1787, even though they continued it, found so impossible to reconcile with freedom that they carefully avoided ... | avoided | {
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The Constitution of the Southern `` Confederation '' differed from that of the Federal Union only in two important respects : It openly, defiantly, recognized slavery - an institution which the Southerners of 1787, even though they continued it, found so impossible to reconcile with freedom that they carefully avoided ... | mentioning | {
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