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States in which these things happened had lost their
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Statehood and had become disorganized communities, but that while they could and had destroyed
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State government, and placed themselves outside of the Union so far as exercising the powers and privileges of
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State local government was concerned, they could not, and had not, escaped the obligations of the Constitution and the authority of the {85} central Government. The exact language of the report on this point was:
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The Constitution, it will be observed, does not act upon States, as such, but upon the people; while, therefore, the people cannot escape its authority, the States may, through the act of their people, cease to exist in an organized form, and thus dissolve their political relations with the United States. The doctrine is here more clearly expressed than in other places, but even here there is a confusing modification contained in the words
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It would have been much clearer if they had been entirely omitted. The framers of the report were evidently haunted by that spectre of an abstract, unorganized
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State,
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States