...had little choice but to bend the law in response to the crisis. He defended his actions by asking, "Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" He had no time to call Congress into session when the fighting broke out, he said. In fact, he had...

...Congress he called on July 4, 1 861, at the beginning of the bloodiest conflict in American history: "Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?"18 The victory of the federal government in the Civil War helped the United States to avoid...

...maintain its territorial integrity, against its own domestic foes." "Must a government," he continued, "be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" (2:250). The problem here is that there might be a deep tension between the republican and constitutional...

...free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask: "Is there, in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness?" "Must a Government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to...

...profoundest problem confronting a democracy, the problem which Lincoln cast in the memorable dilemma: 'Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?' "37 I have quoted Justice Frankfurter at some length...

...provisioning expedition." It forced the questions: "Is there, in all republics, this inherent, and fatal weakness? . . . Must a government, of necessity,...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" No choice was left but "to call out the war power of the Government." Applause swept the House at the...

...defeat. Lincoln asked in his first inaugural address: "Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness? Must a government, of necessity, be...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" For him, and for most northerners, there could be only one answer: no. Any other would be a confession...

...world? Overall, the question that confronts us was perhaps best stated 150 years ago by Abraham Lincoln: "Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" PART I Discarding Democracy CHAPTER 1 Past as Prologue? ALAN BRINKLEY The history of civil liberties...

...flag-salute controversy confronted the Court with "the problem which Lincoln cast in memorable dilemma: you would run a chance of leaving your skin on it. people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?' and that the answer must be in favor of strength."...

...to free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask: Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness? Must a government, of necessity, be...people or too weak to maintain its own existence? Here was a ringing affirmation of the majoritarian principle, now explicitly threatened by a minority...