 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 676 pages
...deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever be Confederate States Navy, no person being on board...Yours, moot respectfully, ALEX. H. STEPHENS. To 8. constjtutiona'l questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court ; nor do I deny that such decision... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 680 pages
...deliberate changes of popular opinions 'and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Thoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or...so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy «• deapotism in some form is all that is left. I do not forget the position assumed by some, «lit... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 680 pages
...changes of popular opinions and sentiments, !» the only true sovereign of а freo people. Whoever separately, procured their independence and their liberty. By conquest, or purchase, the Union gave annrohy or despotism in some form is all that is left. Ido not forget the position assumed by some,... | |
 | 1865 - 138 pages
...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 or...despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible. So that, rejecting the majority principle,... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 480 pages
...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 or...despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible. So that, rejecting the majority principle,... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...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 or...despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible. So that, rejecting the majority principle,... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 506 pages
...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 or...despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible. So that, rejecting the majority principle,... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 300 pages
...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 or...despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible. So that, rejecting the majority principle,... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 296 pages
...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 or...despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible. So that, rejecting the majority principle,... | |
 | Mrs. P. A. Hanaford - 1865 - 230 pages
...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 or...despotism. Unanimity is impossible : the rule of a majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle,... | |
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Plainly, the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy. 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... 
