 | Charles Wallace French - 1891 - 416 страници
...constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinion and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free...arrangement, is wholly inadmissible ; so that rejecting the minority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form, is all that is left. . . . One section of our... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1891 - 858 страници
...essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it docs, of necessity, fly to nnnrcliy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 854 страници
...essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. H; I do not forget the position, assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 782 страници
...ajiarchy. I A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and' limita?-J tions. and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule 01 a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 184 страници
...the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a...anarchy or despotism in some form, is all that is left." LETTER TO HON. REVERDY JOHNSON, THEN AT NEW ORLEANS, JULY 26, 1862. " The people of Louisiana — all... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 182 страници
...essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly... | |
 | George Parker Winship - 1894 - 182 страници
...essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional l checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects ii. does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Morgan - 1895 - 376 страници
...right. The majority should govern. A majority held in check by constitutional limitation, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...anarchy or despotism, in some form, is all that is left. — Abraham Lincoln. The faith of our people in the stability and permanence of their institutions... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 502 страници
...is the essence of anarchy. A majority held in check by constitutional check limitation, and always changing easily with deliberate changes •of popular...rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible.... | |
 | Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - 1897 - 504 страници
...essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholy inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism, in some form,... | |
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Plainly, the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign... 
