I shall make sure, as the Constitution orders me to do, that the laws of the Union are obeyed in all the states.

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I believe that under universal law and the Constitution, the Union of these states is permanent.

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And finally, in seventeen eighty-seven, one of the declared reasons for establishing the Constitution of the United States was to form 'a more perfect Union'.

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"but the rights of the South -- under our constitution -- should have as much protection as the rights of any other part of our Union."

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"The Union is much older than the Constitution.

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The Union still followed the United States Constitution.

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