 | Paul Leicester Ford - United States - 1889 - 214 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,... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 536 pages
...deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. 25 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 decisions must be binding,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 454 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 decisions must be binding... | |
 | Frederick W. Osborn - Recitations - 1890 - 68 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...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... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 540 pages
...deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true- sovereign of a free people.25 Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy...rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism hi some form is all that is left. I do not forget the position, assumed by some, that constitutional... | |
 | United States - 1891 - 928 pages
...deliberate changes of popular opinion and •sentiment, 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 decisions must be binding,... | |
 | Hannah Amelia (Noyes) Davidson, Mrs. Hannah Amelia Noyes Davidson - United States - 1891 - 232 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...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... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...a free people. Whoever reject! it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity ia impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent...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 Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 858 pages
...is 'the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it docs, of necessity, fly to nnnrcliy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule...principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all I h.it is left. " I do not forget the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions arc to... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Presidents - 1891 - 416 pages
...deliberate changes of popular opinion and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy...arrangement, is wholly inadmissible ; so that rejecting the minority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form, is all that is left. . . . One section of our... | |
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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... 
