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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. "
Illustrated Life, Services, Martyrdom, and Funeral of Abraham Lincoln ... - Page 93
edited by - 1865 - 285 pages
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Civil War

Alan Axelrod - History - 2003 - 458 pages
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My Fellow Americans

Michael Waldman - 363 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 — This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall...
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Pluralism and Law: Proceedings of the 20th IVR World Congress, Amsterdam ...

International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. World Congress - Law - 2004 - 224 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.12 ln Holden's concept of democracy, the procedural aspect concerns the question of who is to...
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Judicial Nominations, Filibusters, and the Constitution: When a ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Property Rights - Law - 2003 - 412 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/"7 In addition to its manifest unfairness, the requirement of a supermajority vote not only puts...
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American Constitutional Law: Essays, Cases, and Comparative Notes

Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - Law - 2004 - 502 pages
...Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or...assumed by some, that Constitutional questions are to Ix- decided by the Supreme Court; nor do I denythat such decisions must be binding, in any case, upon...
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Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution & Religion

David Barton - Law - 2000 - 548 pages
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Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Speech A

Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson - History - 2005 - 197 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 yery high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the Government....
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The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words

Ronald Cedric White - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 448 pages
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American Political Rhetoric: A Reader

Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert Martin Schaefer - Political Science - 2005 - 444 pages
...Court. Citizens cannot be understood to have consented to the surrender of their own judgments. ... I do not forget the position assumed by some, that...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 government....
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