What Keeps America From Civil War Is Not Markets But Shared First Principles
Jay argued in Federalist 2 that “this country and this people seem to have been made for each other.”
"[We are] a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence."
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Lincoln was willing to sacrifice prosperity to keep the United States united. There was something else more fundamental and more important to the people’s bonds of affection to which he alluded in his first inaugural address. It was what brought the “better angels of our nature” to “strike the mystic chords of memory” and “swell the chorus of the Union.”
“I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual,” Lincoln avowed. “Continue to execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever, it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.”
"[We are] a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence."
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Lincoln was willing to sacrifice prosperity to keep the United States united. There was something else more fundamental and more important to the people’s bonds of affection to which he alluded in his first inaugural address. It was what brought the “better angels of our nature” to “strike the mystic chords of memory” and “swell the chorus of the Union.”
“I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual,” Lincoln avowed. “Continue to execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever, it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.”
