On the recordJuly 4, 1861
Our States have neither more nor less power than that reserved to them in the Union by the Constitution, no one of them ever having been a State out of the Union.
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In his message to Congress, Lincoln asserts that states derive their powers from the Constitution within the Union, none ever existing independently outside of it.
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