 | Neal Riemer, Douglas Simon, Douglas W. Simon - Political Science - 1997 - 508 pages
..."Unanimity is impossible; the role 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." 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
...Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissable; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.61 Secession, then, was nothing less than a contradiction of the bedrock principle of republican... | |
 | William Bondy - Separation of powers - 1998 - 186 pages
...President Lincoln, referring to the decision in the Dred Scott Case, in his inaugural speech, said: " I do not forget the position assumed by some that...decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decision must be binding in any case on the parties to a suit—as to the object of that suit—while... | |
 | Larry Alexander - Law - 2001 - 336 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. And it was under this heading - "despotism in some form" - that Lincoln went on to discuss the prospect... | |
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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. 
