| Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 pages
...Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority principle, 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
...Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, 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,... | |
| Judson Stuart Landon - Constitutional history - 1889 - 796 pages
...Lincoln, in his first inaugural address, referring to the then recent Dred Scott decision, said: — " I do not forget the position, assumed by some, that...nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding upon the parties to that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration... | |
| Paul Leicester Ford - United States - 1889 - 214 pages
...Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority principle, 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,... | |
| Frederick W. Osborn - Recitations - 1890 - 68 pages
...Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible. So that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or...object of that suit, while they are also entitled to a very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the Government... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 454 pages
...Unanimity is impossible : the rule of a minority as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or...case upon the parties to a suit, as to the object to that suit; while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 500 pages
...Unanimity is impossible : the rule of a minority as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible • so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or...that Constitutional questions are to be decided by tbe Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding in any case upon the parties to... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...Unanimity ia impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or...while they are also entitled to very high respect tad consideration in all parallel cases, by all other departments of the Government. And while it is... | |
| Hannah Amelia (Noyes) Davidson, Mrs. Hannah Amelia Noyes Davidson - United States - 1891 - 232 pages
...Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement. is wholly inadmissible. So that. rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or...object of that suit. while they are also entitled to a very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the Government... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 858 pages
...Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority 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... | |
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