 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - English literature - 1901 - 398 pages
...deliberate changes of popular opinions and 275 sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy...inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority principle, 280 anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. I do not forget the position assumed by... | |
 | United States - 1901 - 536 pages
...deliberate changes of popular opin ions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy...a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmisible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism, in some form, is all... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 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...a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissable; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy, or despotism in some form, is all... | |
 | Hadley Arkes - Philosophy - 1986 - 448 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...a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissable; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy, or despotism in some form, is all... | |
 | Frederick E. Snyder, Surakiart Sathirathai - Law - 1987 - 884 pages
...the only true sovereign of a free people. Whosoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a...principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.12 (emphasis added). The partition of India in 1947 is an apt illustration of disregarding Lincoln's... | |
 | Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1989 - 524 pages
...among the States to compose a new Union, as to produce harmony only, and prevent renewed secession? 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... | |
 | Thomas W. Benson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 272 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... | |
 | Neal Riemer, Douglas Simon, Douglas W. Simon - Political Science - 1997 - 508 pages
...the force of Lincoln's argument in his First Inaugural Address: "Unanimity is impossible; the role of a minority as a permanent arrangement is wholly...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left." Lincoln, of course, had the Southern states in mind. He knew that one consequence of the rejection... | |
 | Joseph M. Bessette - Political Science - 1994 - 316 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...a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissable; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that... | |
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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... 
