...fin* inaugural address: "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it ... Why should there not be a patient confidence in the...Is there any better or equal hope in the world?*"" The most serious threat to the potential viability of direct popular election is the fear that the...

...first inaugural address: "This country, with its institutions, belong to the people who inhabit it ... Why should there not be a patient confidence in the...the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?""1 The most serious threat to the potential viability of direct popular election is the fear...

...splicing the tew common bonds that remained between North and South, he turned to the people, asking, "Why should there not be a patient confidence in the...people. Is there any better or equal hope in the world?" [First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1861], We legionnaires, we Americans, who have lived through two...

...or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." Lincoln's appeal throughout was to the "patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the..."Is there any better or equal hope, in the world?" he asked, even as he noted the human tendency of parties in dispute to insist with equal confidence...

...derives all his authority from the people. ... His duty is to administer the present government, as it came to his hands, and to transmit it, unimpaired by him, to his successor. —Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, 1861" The constitutional experiment that created the United...

...executive, as such, has nothing to do with it. His duty is to administer the present government, as it came to his hands, and to transmit it, unimpaired by him, to his successor. right? If the Almighty Ruler of nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the...

...his simple caretaking role: "the executive['s] . . . duty is to administer the present government, as it came to his hands, and to transmit it, unimpaired by him, to his successor" (AL, 4:270). Not only Lincoln, but all "the people" are bound by the Constitution in precisely the...

...reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 2, p. 532. Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990). Why should there not be a patient confidence in the...people? Is there any better or equal hope, in the world? "First Inaugural Address" — First Edition and Revisions, March 4, 1861, reprinted in Collected Works...

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...derives all his authority from the people.... His duty is to administer the present government, as it came to his hands, and to transmit it, unimpaired by him, to his successor.... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil...