 | Eugene M. Wait - Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.) - 1999 - 308 pages
...Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangements, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy, or despotism in some form, is all that is left." The closing portion of his speech dealt with legal changes and the approach of a civil war. It was... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 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 One section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 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." Collected Works, vol. IV, p. 268 (emphasis added). In contrast, here is Jefferson Davis, in his Message... | |
 | Robert P. George - History - 2000 - 222 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.6 And it was under this heading — "despotism in some form" — that Lincoln went on to discuss... | |
 | Albert W. Alschuler - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 348 pages
...[constitutional decisions of the Supreme Court] must be binding in any case upon die parties to a suit as to die object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration ... by all other departments of Government. And while it is obviously possible that such decision may... | |
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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. 
