 | Lemuel Dyer Lilly - Liquor laws - 1910 - 56 pages
...of a minority, as a permanent 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 argument hold good, these advocates of personal liberty must make it appear... | |
 | Edgar Willey Ames - United States - 1911 - 146 pages
...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible....constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court,1 nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding in any case upon the parties to a suit, as... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1911 - 170 pages
...of necessity, fly to an- 25 archy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible...do ,not forget the position, assumed by some, that constitu- 30 tional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court ; nor do I deny that such decisions... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Readers - 1911 - 190 pages
...Plainly, the central idea of secession is the essence of Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible...do not forget the position, assumed by some, that 5 constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court ; nor do I deny that such decisions... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1911 - 140 pages
...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible....anarchy or despotism, in some form, is all that is left. J do not forget the position assumed by some that constitutional questions are to be decided by the... | |
 | Law - 1912 - 516 pages
...the court and the right interpretation of law, which latter Lincoln himself wanted to do, he said : "I do not forget the position assumed by some that...be decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that 3uch decisions must be binding in any case upon the parties to a suit as to the object of that suit,... | |
 | Clark Mills Brink - Oratory - 1913 - 464 pages
...does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible;...the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decisions in any case are binding upon the parties to a suit as to the object of that suit, while they are also... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - United States - 1914 - 476 pages
...provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. . . . From questions of this class, spring all our constitutional...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. . . . Physically speaking, we cannot separate — we cannot remove our respective sections from each... | |
 | John Thomas Richards - Biography & Autobiography - 1916 - 314 pages
...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible;...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. . . . Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Internal Security Committee - 1974 - 630 pages
...a rule of the majority. "Unanimity is impossible," said President Lincoln, "the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible;...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left." A year later, in 1861, of the system that had been established, he said : "Our popular government has... | |
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Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. 
