 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 690 pages
...rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rnle of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly...the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court ; nor do I deny that such decision must be binding,... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 676 pages
...rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rnle of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly...left. I do not forget the position assumed by some, th»t constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court ; nor do I deny that such decision... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible....forget the position assumed by some that constitutional questions are to b,e decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny-that such decisions must be binding... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 300 pages
...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible....the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 296 pages
...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible....the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - Presidents United States Biography - 1865 - 232 pages
...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity ia impossible : the rule of a majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible...the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court; nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 480 pages
...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible....forget the position assumed by some that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding... | |
 | 1865 - 138 pages
...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible....forget the position assumed by some that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of n majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible....forget the position assumed by some that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 506 pages
...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible....forget the position assumed by some that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding... | |
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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 a free people. Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy... 
