 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 780 pages
...anarchy or to despotism. UIIAnimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, M wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority...the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions ire to be decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decision must be binding,... | |
 | Orators - 1880 - 698 pages
...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...the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court; nor ilo I deny that such decisions must be binding,... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1882 - 680 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - United States - 1882 - 582 pages
...of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; and 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... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - Presidential candidates - 1884 - 266 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Frank Abial Flower - Republican Party - 1884 - 662 pages
...Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; and the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement,...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... | |
 | Alexander Johnston - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1884 - 430 pages
...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...rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholy inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism, in some form,... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 pages
...deliberate changes of popular opinions aud sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy...anarchy or despotism, in some form, is all that is left Physicallv speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other,... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly-to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ;...anarchy or despotism, in some form, is all that is left .... Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other,... | |
 | United States - 1889 - 242 pages
...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...anarchy or despotism, in some form, is all that is left. . . . Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other,... | |
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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... 
