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.

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.

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.

But though the Southern States, when drafting a constitution to unite themselves, narrowed the difference to this fine point by omitting to assert the right to secede, the fact remained that by seceding from the Union they had already acted on the concept that it was composed primarily of sovereign states.

Lincoln saw that the act of secession made the issue for the Union a vital one: Whether it was a Union of sovereign citizens that should continue to live, or an association of sovereign states that must fall prey either to `` anarchy or despotism ''.

Though his election was interpreted by many Southerners as the forerunner of a dangerous shift in the federal balance in favor of the Union, Lincoln himself proposed no such change in the rights the Constitution gave the states.

What Lincoln could not concede was that the states rather than the people were sovereign in the Union.

Blenheim was followed in rapid succession by Ramillies And The Union With Scotland and by The Peace And The Protestant Succession, the three forming together a detailed picture of England under Queen Anne.

From the night of August 30 to the morning of September 2 there was no Union cavalry east of the Macon railway to disclose to Sherman that he was missing the greatest opportunity of his career.

Mrs. Dwyer's husband, M. Joseph Dwyer, was taking a 10-year-old boy from Union County on the tour of the Capitol during the final weeks of the last session.

Actually, of course, that label `` controversial '' applied only because he was carrying out the mandate given him by the world organization he headed rather than following the dictates of the Soviet Union.

In other words, the Soviet Union was determined to create a Poland so strong as to be a powerful bulwark against Germany and so closely tied to Russia that there would never be any question of her serving as a cordon sanitaire against the Soviets or posing as an independent, balancing power in between Russia and Germany.

From 1896 until 1910 John H. Whipple was manager of Western Union at the Center in the drugstore he purchased from Clark Wait.

The old Morse system was replaced locally by the Simplex modern automatic method in 1929, when Ellamae Heckman ( Wilcox ) was manager of the Western Union office.

The next step was construction by the Manchester Light and Power Company of a plant on the west bank of the Battenkill south of Union Street bridge.

Typical of such an experience was the occasion of a somewhat formal official welcome in the offices of the Union of Soviet Artists.

An excellent article was published recently in the Journal Of The Church Peace Union by a South African journalist on the inhuman economic conditions of the blacks in South Africa, amounting to virtual slavery, and the economic complicity of both the government and the people of the United States in these conditions.

This was disclosed today by a responsible source amid intensified efforts by the Soviet Union to gain a greater role in the staff and operation of the United Nations.

Insuring that the countries have a freedom of choice, he said, was the biggest detriment to the Soviet Union.

One item in this unhappy scheme was to have Germany policed exclusively by its continental neighbors, among whom only the Soviet Union possessed real military strength.

This was no man's land, disputed by the Haijac Union and the Israeli Republic, a potential source of war for the last two hundred years.

His election was the signal for seven southern slave states to declare their secession from the Union and form the Confederacy.

As the Community expanded into the Union, the centre-right in the new member states were not necessarily Christian Democrat and the EPP ( European People's Party, the transnational political party founded in 1976 which all group members are now affiliated to ) feared being sidelined.

Another national peasant organization, the National Union of Peasants ( Unión Nacional de Campesinos — UNC ), claiming a membership of 40, 000, was affiliated with the CGT for many years and was a principal force within the confederation.

This political isolation became more pronounced when Lithuania and Poland both became members of the European Union and NATO, as well as entering the Schengen Zone, which means that the oblast is surrounded by territories affiliated with these institutions as well.

Kurt Georg Kiesinger (; 6 April 1904 – 9 March 1988 ) was a German politician affiliated with the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ).

The largest trade union federation in the world is the Brussels-based International Trade Union Confederation ( ITUC ), which has approximately 309 affiliated organisations in 156 countries and territories, with a combined membership of 166 million.

Beit Knessett Shalom was initially established as a Liberal Congregation in the 1970s, and later affiliated to the Union for Progressive Judaism.

Namibia's largest trade union federation, the National Union of Namibian Workers ( NUNW ) represents workers organised into seven affiliated trade unions.

Most of its membership came from synagogues affiliated with the Union of Orthodox Congregations and RCA ( above ).

The Relief Camp Workers ' Union was formed and affiliated with the Workers ' Unity League, the trade union umbrella of the Communist Party.

Reform Judaism is one of the two North American denominations affiliated with the World Union for Progressive Judaism.

By the time of the Summer Olympics, the NOCs had affiliated separately, though they fielded a joint team with a standard uniform as Olympic qualifying rounds had been completed before the final demise of the Soviet Union.

** War in Somalia ( 2006 – 2009 ) – involved largely Ethiopian and Somali Transitional Federal Government ( TFG ) forces whom fought against the Somali Islamist umbrella group, the Islamic Court Union ( ICU ), and other affiliated militias for control of the country.

None of these is affiliated to the National Union of Students: membership has been rejected on a number of occasions, most recently in November 2006, on both economic and political grounds.

The Council affiliated with the National Labor Union, America's first national union effort.

The International Association of Botanic Gardens was formed in 1954 as a worldwide organisation affiliated to the International Union of Biological Sciences.

* The Messianic Jewish Rabbinical Council, many of whose members are affiliated with the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations, has published its standards of Messianic Torah observance.

He was affiliated with the " Baptist Bible Union ", based in the United States.

The Union is affiliated to NUS ( the National Union of Students.

While the IWW participated in the Seattle General Strike, that action was called by the Seattle Central Labor Union, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor ( AFL, predecessor of the AFL-CIO ).

The WBC has nine regional governing bodies affiliated with it, such as the North American Boxing Federation ( NABF ), the Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation ( OPBF ), the European Boxing Union ( EBU ) and the African Boxing Council ( ABC ).

It is now affiliated to the Baptist Union of Great Britain and to the Evangelical Alliance.

Cowbridge is home to Cowbridge RFC a Welsh Rugby Union affiliated rugby union team, which fields two senior, a youth and ladies team.

The church is affiliated with Gardnertown Cemetery, one of the oldest cemeteries in the Town still in use, which is located both immediately east of the church, across Union Avenue, and south of the church, across Gardnertown Road.