"The Union of these States is perpetual.... No
government proper ever had a provision in its organic
law for its own termination. ... The Union will endure
forever-it being impossible to destroy it except by
some action not provided for in the instrument itself....
If the United States be not a government proper, but an
association of States..., can it ... be peacefully
unmade by less than all the parties who made it?...
Does not it require all to lawfully rescind it?"
-Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, March 4,
1861.
What is Lincoln's main idea about the Union?
.Lincoln main idea was that he