| 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... | |
| Forough Jahanbakhsh - Religion - 2001 - 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.44 The majority principle is occasionally justified in terms of Rousseau's social contract as... | |
| Hadley Arkes - Law - 2002 - 326 pages
...restated the understanding in this way: He was willing to accept the judgment of the Supreme Court as "binding in any case, upon the parties to a suit, as to the object of that suit,. . . [and] limited to that particular case."-' s What he was not obliged to accept was the prineiple... | |
| Dennis C. Mueller - Business & Economics - 2003 - 796 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. Abraham Lincoln . . . unless the king has been elected by unanimous vote, what, failing a prior agreement,... | |
| Daniel A. Farber - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 272 pages
..."[u]nanimity 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." If, in case of disagreement, a minority "will secede rather than acquiesce, they make a precedent which,... | |
| 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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