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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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Re-Examining Sovereignty: From Classical Theory to the Global Age

Hideaki Shinoda - History - 2000 - 246 pages
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Islam, Democracy and Religious Modernism in Iran, 1953-2000: From Bāzargān ...

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...
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美国重要历史文献导读: 从殖民地时期到19世纪

United States - 2002 - 328 pages
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This Fiery Trial: The Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 260 pages
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Natural Rights and the Right to Choose

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...
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"Lincoln's Humor" and Other Essays

Benjamin Platt Thomas - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 326 pages
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The Mythic Meanings of the Second Amendment: Taming Political Violence in a ...

David C. Williams - History - 2003 - 418 pages
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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 - 400 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/'" In addition to its manifest unfairness, the requirement of a supermajority vote not only puts government...
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Public Choice III

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,...
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Lincoln's Constitution

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,...
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