How to use "divide" in a sentence

From questions of this class spring all our constitutional controversies, and we divide upon them into majorities and minorities

If a minority in such case will secede rather than acquiesce, they make a precedent which in turn will divide and ruin them; for a minority of their own will secede from them whenever a majority refuses to be controlled by such minority

insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war - seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation.

Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.