 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 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,... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 208 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,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1899 - 196 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,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1899 - 110 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,... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc - 1900 - 470 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,... | |
 | Eltweed Pomeroy - Legislation - 1900 - 132 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...or despotism, in some form, is all that is left." — Abraham Lincoln, in his first inaugural. "Not the centralization, but the diffusion of power is... | |
 | Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 pages
...the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a...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 - United States - 1900 - 186 pages
...deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. * * * The rule of a minority as a permanent arrangement...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. 48 (February 14, 1861, Speech at Steubenvl11e, Ohio— Complete Works, Vol. I. p. 677.) If the majority... | |
 | Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1901 - 516 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,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1901 - 262 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...do not forget the position, assumed by some, that consti133 tutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court ; nor do I deny that such decisions... | |
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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... 
