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.

The difference between confederacy and federal union in 1861

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.

'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.

One is tempted to say that, on the difference between the concepts of sovereignty in these two preambles, the worst war of the Nineteenth century was fought.

I murmured something about a possible difference between New Mexico's history and Mississippi's.

If we examine the three types of change from the point of view of their internal structure we find an additional profound difference between the third and the first two, one that accounts for the notable difference between the responses they evoke.

Now we can argue that the irresistible fate of Oedipus Rex was nothing more than the irresistible unconscious longings of Oedipus projected outward, but this externalization of unconscious conflict makes all the difference between a story and a clinical case history.

Free world decisions in this matter may spell the difference between world disaster and world progress in freedom.

The second timely part of this sketch of literature and the search for identity has to do with the difference between good and enduring literary works and the ephemeral mass culture products of today.

he was given the difference between that amount and $5000.

Banks the Butcher was a hard master and a hard father, a man who didn't seem to know the difference between the living flesh of his family and the hanging carcasses of his stock in trade.

Democratic Speaker Champ Clark saw little difference between a conscript and a convict.

The other reason ( and the one with which I am here concerned ) is that one thus becomes inclined to inquire of any opinion, or change of opinion, whether it represents the wisdom of experience or is only the result of the difference between youth and age which is as inevitable as the all too obvious physical differences.

Although the false glamour surrounding bourbon or other whisky commercials is possibly no more fatuous than the pseudo-sophistication with which TV soft-drinks are downed or toothpaste applied, there is a sad difference between enticing a viewer into sipping Oopsie-Cola and gulling him into downing bourbon.

This matter is of great importance, and the outcome may mean the difference between life or death, or at least serious injuries, for many veterans.

Such payments shall be made to small domestic producers of lead as long as the market price for common lead at New York, New York, as determined by the Secretary, is below 14-1/2 cents per pound, and such payments shall be 75 per centum of the difference between 14-1/2 cents per pound and the average market price for the month in which the sale occurred as determined by the Secretary.

Such payments shall be made to small domestic producers of zinc as long as the market price for prime western zinc at East Saint Louis, Illinois, as determined by the Secretary, is below 14-1/2 cents per pound, and such payments shall be 55 per centum of the difference between 14-1/2 cents per pound and the average market price for the month in which the sale occurred as determined by the Secretary.

A second fundamental principle is that involved particularly in the present proceeding -- the difference between nighttime and daytime propagation conditions with respect to the standard broadcast frequencies.

Because of the difference between daytime and nighttime propagation conditions, it has been necessary to evolve different allocation structures for daytime and nighttime broadcasting in the AM band, with many more stations operating during the day than at night.

Compare the vast difference in scope and beauty between his neat and witty little Classical Symphony and his big, muscular, passionate, and eloquent Fifth Symphony ; ;

We may then dismiss the time difference between these courses and the usual four year course of the interior design student as not having serious bearing on the subject.

The 35 seconds results from the initial difference of 10 seconds at the start of 1972, plus 25 leap seconds in UTC since 1972.

The absolute magnitude uses the same convention as the visual magnitude: a factor of 10 < sup > 0. 4 </ sup > (≈ 2. 512 ) ratio of brightness corresponds to a difference of 1. 0 in magnitude.

According to Unilever, " in blind taste tests, 10 % didn't notice any difference in taste, 40 % preferred the original and 50 % preferred the new product.

If there is a significant ( greater than 10 %) difference between cylinders, that may be an indication that valves or cylinder head gaskets are leaking, piston rings are worn or that the block is cracked.

If Wisda's Landscaping breaks the contract, and Neal Townsend is forced to hire another service for $ 60 an hour, expectation ( direct ) damages paid to Neal Townsend would equal $ 100 ($ 10 an hour, the difference in price between the original contract and the new contract ).

This difference between arterial and venous levels is small in the fasting state but is amplified and can be greater than 10 % in the postprandial state.

For example, until the Tannaitic period ( approximately 10 – 220 CE ) the months were set by observation of a new crescent moon, with an additional month added every two or three years to correct for the difference between twelve lunar months and the solar year, and therefore, to keep Passover in the spring.

To date no difference has been found to a few parts in 10 < sup > 11 </ sup >.

This definition reflects the spectrum between micro-and macro-evolution, whilst leaving a clear difference between the terms: because the geological record rarely has a resolution better than 10, 000 years, and humans rarely live longer than 100 years, " meso-evolution " is never observed.

The interactions between ion channels and ion pumps produce a voltage difference across the membrane, typically a bit less than 1 / 10 of a volt at baseline.

An order-of-magnitude difference between two values is a factor of 10.

Modern systems with a higher time resolution ( roughly 3 nanoseconds ) also use a technique ( called " Time-of-flight ") where they more precisely decide the difference in time between the detection of the two photons and can thus localize the point of origin of the annihilation event between the two detectors to within 10 cm.

We may calculate the ratio of the populations of the two states at room temperature ( T ≈ 300 K ) for an energy difference ΔE that corresponds to light of a frequency corresponding to visible light ( ν ≈ 5 × 10 < sup > 14 </ sup > Hz ).

Speculative theories such as string theory predict 10 or 26 dimensions ( with M-theory predicting 11 dimensions: 10 spatial and 1 temporal ), but the existence of more than four dimensions would only appear to make a difference at the subatomic level.

While not appearing large, the mass ratio to delta-v curve is very steep to reach orbit in a single stage, and this makes a 10 % difference to the mass ratio on top of the tankage and pump savings.

Livni's narrow margin of 431 votes was 43. 1 % to Shaul Mofaz's 42. 0 %, a huge difference from the 10 to 12-point exit polls margins.

Turner believed that his $ 100 million per year donation over the course of 10 years would make a difference in the direction of the United Nations, and that he could use this donation to encourage other wealthy members of society to make financial contributions to the work of the UN.

Furthermore, the net potential difference of the galactic electric field in interstellar space is only 1. 6 × 10 < sup >− 19 </ sup > volt.

It is believed to represent some 25 – 40 % of the difference in skin tone between Europeans and Africans, and appears to have arisen as recently as within the last 10, 000 years.

For example, if a firm could reasonably reduce errors and rework ( the Process component of human capital ) from 10, 000 hours per annum to 2, 000 hours with attainable technology, the difference of 8, 000 hours is human capital risk.

There are, on average, 30 ice crystals per liter ( 96 ice crystals per gallon ), but this ranges from one ice crystal per 10, 000 liters ( 3. 7 ice crystals per 10, 000 gallons ) to 10, 000 ice crystals per liter ( 37, 000 ice crystals per gallon ), a difference of eight orders of magnitude.

The difference in global mean temperatures between a fully glacial Earth and an ice free Earth is estimated at approximately 10 ° C, though far larger changes would be observed at high latitudes and smaller ones at low latitudes.