 | George Washington Bacon - Biography - 1865 - 206 pages
...essence of anarchy. A majority hold in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it, docs, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority,... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 680 pages
...the essence of anarchy. A majority held in reItraint by constitutional checks and limitations «nil alwajs changing easily with deliberate changes of...sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Thoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...essence of anarchy. (A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free peopleTj Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible... | |
 | William Turner Coggeshall - 1865 - 342 pages
...changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever reject it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a majority, <*sa permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible. So that, rejecting the majority principle,... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - Presidents - 1865 - 322 pages
...essence of anarchy. _ "A majority held in restraint by constitutional check and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of ft free people. Whoever reject it, does, of necessity, fly to nnarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 568 pages
...essence of anarchy. " A majority held in restraint by constitutional check and limitation, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...anarchy or despotism, in some form, is all that is left. " 1 do not forget the position assumed by some that constitutional questions are to be decided by the... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 574 pages
...essence of anarchy. "A majority held in restraint by constitutional check and limitation, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...anarchy or despotism, in some form, is all that is left. "1 do not forget the position assumed by some that constitutional questions are to be decided by the... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Presidents - 1866 - 264 pages
...essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible. . . . One section of our country believes that slavery is right, and ought to be extended ; while the... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1866 - 222 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,... | |
 | 1866 - 278 pages
...essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional check and limitation, and always changing easily •with deliberate changes of popular...anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; and the rule of a majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible. So that, rejecting... | |
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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... 
