 | Peace - 1913 - 658 pages
...Constitution which was to give that Union birth, Alexander Hamilton uttered these words of solemn warning: "It has been frequently remarked that it seems to...their political constitutions, on accident and force. A wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this view, deserve to be considered as the general... | |
 | United States - 1912 - 1338 pages
...seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question whether societies of men are...destined to depend for their political constitutions on action and force. Jay, who was not a member of the convention and therefore could speak freely on the... | |
 | Bunford Samuel - Constitutional law - 1920 - 416 pages
...seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...accident and force. If there be any truth in the remark, the.crisis, at which we are arrived, may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision... | |
 | Henry Jones Ford - Biography & Autobiography - 1920 - 406 pages
...said, "to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...their political constitutions on accident and force." He went on: "If there be any truth in the remark, the crisis at which we are arrived may with propriety... | |
 | Henry Jones Ford - Biography & Autobiography - 1920 - 404 pages
...effort were addressed to the great question which he propounded in the first number of The Federalist: "Whether societies of men are really capable or not...their political constitutions on accident and force." The answer is not yet quite clear, but it is quite clear that the greatest contribution to political... | |
 | Bunford Samuel - Constitutional law - 1920 - 416 pages
...that "the question whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good governments from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever...their political constitutions, on accident and force," has been decided by force. Not only does the word "academic" thus restore those political ideals which... | |
 | Herman Finer - FRANCE - 1921 - 96 pages
...seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...•political constitutions on accident and force.* . Models in the State government and the government of England were to hand for what they were worth.... | |
 | United States - Constitutional history - 1896 - 448 pages
...seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...are arrived, may with propriety be regarded as the aera in which that decision is to be made ; and a wrong election of the part we shall act, may, in... | |
 | Henry Jones Ford - Representative government and representation - 1924 - 336 pages
...in 1787 in recommending the adoption of the constitution of the United States. As he put it, it is " whether societies of men are really capable or not...their political constitutions on accident and force." It is generally considered that the most satisfactory answer to this question that history affords... | |
 | James Kerr Pollock - United States - 1927 - 384 pages
...seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...are arrived may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made ; and a wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this... | |
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It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from... 
