| Industrial relations - 1926 - 356 pages
...Vol. 8 New York, February, 1926 No. 2 THE TRUE SOVEREIGN KH^ MAJUK1'1'Y' held » restraint <^^^[ tIy constitutional checks and limitations and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinion and sentiment, is the only true sovereign of the people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity... | |
| Virginia - 1928 - 346 pages
...of the United States is but an assertion that the rights of the States have been confiscated. tity of interests among the States to compose a new union,...restraint by constitutional checks and limitations — is the only true sovereign of a free people." In all of his public statements after receiving his... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration - 1957 - 402 pages
...in a moral point of view. justify revolution — certainly would if such a right were a vital one. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks...opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of free people. In his first inaugural address, Thomas Jefferson said : All, too, will bear in mind this... | |
| Pennsylvania Bar Association - Bar associations - 1927 - 584 pages
...do. All should be content to live under a government of which Lincoln said in his first inaugural : "A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks...changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinion and sentiment is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it, does of necessity... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 696 pages
...present Union now claim to secede from it? All who cherish disunion sentiments are now being educated to the exact temper of doing this. Is there such perfect...anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional check and limitation, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments,... | |
| United States. Congress. House Internal Security - 1973 - 1344 pages
...from a revered President and one of the outstanding figures of all ;. In 1861 Abraham Lincoln said : A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks...easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentinifiits, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does, of ity. fly to... | |
| Frederick E. Snyder, Surakiart Sathirathai - Law - 1987 - 884 pages
...minority rights. It is here that one can see the importance and significance of the Lincoln concept: A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks...limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate change of popular opinion and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whosoever rejects... | |
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