 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 496 pages
...essence of anarchy. "A majority held in restraint by constitutional check und limitation, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...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 - 306 pages
...essence of anarchy. " A majority, held in restraint by constitutional check and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...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 - 972 pages
...essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional 'check :iuil limitation, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...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
...essence of anarchy. " A majority held in restraint by constitutional check and limitation, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...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
...essence of anarchy. " A majority, held in restraint by constitutional check and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible. So that, rejecting the majority principle,... | |
 | 1865 - 138 pages
...essence of anarchy. "A majority held in restraint by constitutional check and limitation, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...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 - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional check and limitation, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of n majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible. So that, rejecting the majority principle,... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 676 pages
...is the essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations tnd alwajs changing easily with deliberate changes of...anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rnle of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - Presidents United States Biography - 1865 - 232 pages
...essence of anarchy. " A majority held in restraint by constitutional check and limitation, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity ia impossible : the rule of a majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible ; so that,... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 498 pages
...and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the oaly true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it,...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... 
