 | John Ashworth - Business & Economics - 1995 - 23 pages
...their government, and thus practically put an end to free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask: Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal...people or too weak to maintain its own existence? Here was a ringing affirmation of the majoritarian principle, now explicitly threatened by a minority... | |
 | Philip L. Ostergard - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 293 pages
...their Government, and thus practically put an end to free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask: "Is there, in all republics, this inherent, and...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" Lincoln the attorney had a keen ability to make precise statements, cutting to the heart of an argument.... | |
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Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? 
