 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 580 pages
...constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. I do not forget the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the... | |
 | History, Modern - 1861 - 456 pages
...constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments , is the only true sovereign...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left, ^f I do not forget the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by... | |
 | Charles Lempriere - United States - 1861 - 336 pages
...constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily, with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. " I do not forget the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by... | |
 | Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments , is the only true sovereign...rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholl)' inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy Or despotism in some form... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 pages
...always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only trne sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarcby or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement,... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...constitutional check and limitation, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign...despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible. So that, rejecting the majority principle,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 pages
...constitutional check and limitation, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. I do not forget the position assumed by some that constitutional questions are to be decided by the... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...constitutional checks and limitations and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. I do not forget the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 pages
...sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to depotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority,...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. I do not forget the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...constitutional check and limitation, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign...despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible. So that, rejecting the majority principle,... | |
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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 of... 
