 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1874 - 1956 pages
...secession is anarchy. A majority, held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism." The President referred to the binding character of the decisions of the Supreme Court in all special... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - United States - 1882 - 582 pages
...essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional check and limitation, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; and the rule of a majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible. So that, rejecting... | |
 | Alexander Johnston - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1884 - 430 pages
...essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholy inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism, in some form,... | |
 | Frank Abial Flower - Republican Party - 1884 - 662 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 minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible. So that, rejecting... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...essence of anarchy. A majority, held in restraint by Constitutional checks and limitations and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. ******* ''Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective Sections from each... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 pages
...checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions aud sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people....anarchy or despotism, in some form, is all that is left Physicallv speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other,... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...free people. Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly-to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement,... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...Inaugural Address.) A majority held in restraint by Constitutional check and limitation, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. (First Inaugural Address.) Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - United States - 1889 - 214 pages
...essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...anarchy or despotism, in some form, is all that is left. . . . Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other,... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 540 pages
...essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...sentiments, is the only true- sovereign of a free people.25 Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible;... | |
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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... 
