| Neal Riemer, Douglas Simon, Douglas W. Simon - Political Science - 1997 - 508 pages
...Lincoln's argument in his First Inaugural Address: "Unanimity is impossible; the role of a minority as a permanent arrangement is wholly inadmissible;...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left." Lincoln, of course, had the Southern states in mind. He knew that one consequence of the rejection... | |
| Joseph M. Bessette - Political Science - 1994 - 316 pages
...Unanimity 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.61 Secession, then, was nothing less than a contradiction of the bedrock principle of republican... | |
| William Bondy - Separation of powers - 1998 - 186 pages
...President Lincoln, referring to the decision in the Dred Scott Case, in his inaugural speech, said: " I do not forget the position assumed by some that...decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decision must be binding in any case on the parties to a suit—as to the object of that suit—while... | |
| Larry Alexander - Law - 2001 - 336 pages
...government, is acquiescence on one side or the other. . . . Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible;...anarchy, or despotism in some form, is all that is left. And it was under this heading - "despotism in some form" - that Lincoln went on to discuss the prospect... | |
| Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible;...decisions must be binding in any case upon the parties to a suit as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration... | |
| George Anastaplo - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 392 pages
...States had given up on the Union.353 coln in his Inaugural Address when he said (in Paragraph 24): I do not forget the position assumed by some, that...decisions must be binding in any case, upon the parties to a suit, as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration,... | |
| Eugene M. Wait - Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.) - 1999 - 308 pages
...anarchy on to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangements, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority...anarchy, or despotism in some form, is all that is left." The closing portion of his speech dealt with legal changes and the approach of a civil war. It was... | |
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