 | Lemuel Dyer Lilly - Liquor laws - 1910 - 56 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...arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majorit- principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.' In order fo make their... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard - Political science - 1910 - 814 pages
...inaugural address, he gave a temperate and reasoned view of the place of the Supreme Court in our system: "I do not forget the position, assumed by some, that constitutional questions arc to be decided by the Supreme Court ; nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding, in any... | |
 | Edgar Willey Ames - United States - 1911 - 146 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...constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court,1 nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding in any case upon the parties to a suit, as... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1911 - 170 pages
...sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to an- 25 archy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority,...do ,not forget the position, assumed by some, that constitu- 30 tional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court ; nor do I deny that such decisions... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Readers - 1911 - 190 pages
...harmony only, and prevent renewed secession? Plainly, the central idea of secession is the essence of Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority,...do not forget the position, assumed by some, that 5 constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court ; nor do I deny that such decisions... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1911 - 140 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. J do not forget the position assumed by some that constitutional questions are to be decided by the... | |
 | Law - 1912 - 516 pages
...the court and the right interpretation of law, which latter Lincoln himself wanted to do, he said : "I do not forget the position assumed by some that...be decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that 3uch decisions must be binding in any case upon the parties to a suit as to the object of that suit,... | |
 | Clark Mills Brink - Oratory - 1913 - 454 pages
...true 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...the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decisions in any case are binding upon the parties to a suit as to the object of that suit, while they are also... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - United States - 1914 - 476 pages
...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible....anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. . . . Physically speaking, we cannot separate — we cannot remove our respective sections from each... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Internal Security - Intelligence service - 1974 - 630 pages
...of processes of change by a rule of the majority. "Unanimity is impossible," said President Lincoln, "the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement,...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left." A year later, in 1861, of the system that had been established, he said : "Our popular government has... | |
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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... 
