 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 780 pages
...anarchy or to despotism. UIIAnimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, M wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority...position assumed by some, that constitutional questions ire to be decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decision must be binding, in any case,... | |
 | Adolphe de Pineton marquis de Chambrun - Constitutional history - 1874 - 318 pages
...not spoken. And March 4th, 1861, President Lincoln mentions the subject in the following manner: " Constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court; nor do I deny that such decision must be binding in any case upon the parties to a suit, as to the object of that suit, while... | |
 | Orators - 1880 - 698 pages
...sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as...questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court; nor ilo I deny that such decisions must be binding, in any case, upon the parties to a suit, as to the... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1882 - 680 pages
...sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority,...decided by the Supreme Court ; nor do I deny that such decision must be binding, in any case, upon the parties to a suit, as to the object of that suit, while... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - Presidential candidates - 1884 - 264 pages
...sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as...decided by the Supreme Court; nor do I deny that such decision must be binding, in any case, upon the parties to a suit, as to the object of that suit, while... | |
 | Alexander Johnston - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1884 - 430 pages
...sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholy inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism, in some form,... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...sovereign of a Free People. Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy, or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. ******* ''Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective Sections from each... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 pages
...sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as...anarchy or despotism, in some form, is all that is left Physicallv speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other,... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly-to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority,...anarchy or despotism, in some form, is all that is left .... Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other,... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - United States - 1889 - 214 pages
...sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority,...anarchy or despotism, in some form, is all that is left. . . . Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other,... | |
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A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy... 
