 | Theology - 1906 - 336 pages
...political equity. "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." Government of men by their own free vote, pliant and free as their free and pliant wills, shifting... | |
 | Robert Henry Browne - United States - 1907 - 660 pages
...essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangenient, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1907 - 114 pages
...fight. TH I RTEEN-TH 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. FOURTEENTH This, too, shall pass away : never fear. FI FT EENTH APRIL SIXTEENTH I have said nothing... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1908 - 148 pages
...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 of a true people. Whoever rejects it does, of TheBulwark of American Liberty and Indepen dence necessity,... | |
 | Lemuel Dyer Lilly - Liquor laws - 1910 - 56 pages
...as follows, viz : "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.' In order to make their argument hold good, these advocates of personal liberty must make it appear... | |
 | Lemuel Dyer Lilly - Liquor laws - 1910 - 56 pages
...as follows, viz : "A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majorit- principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.' In order fo make their... | |
 | The Lake English Classics WASHINGTON WEBSTER AND LINCOLN - 1910 - 158 pages
...essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional 20 checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minor25 ity, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle,... | |
 | George Washington - 1910 - 156 pages
...essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by coBe&tetron'al 20 checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minor25 ity, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority principle,... | |
 | Joseph Villiers Denney - 1910 - 348 pages
...essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional 20 checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minor25 ity, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle,... | |
 | Hadley Arkes - Philosophy - 1986 - 448 pages
...essence of anarchy": A majority, held in restraint by constitutional checks, and limitations, and always changing easily, with deliberate changes of popular...a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissable; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy, or despotism in some form, is all... | |
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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... 
