 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 free people. Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy...  Men and Thought in Modern History - Page 146by Ernest Scott - 1920 - 346 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 580 pages
...popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. I do not forget the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the... | |
 | Charles Lempriere - United States - 1861 - 336 pages
...popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. " I do not forget the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 pages
...is the only trne sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarcby or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule...inadmissible ; so that rejecting the majority principle, anarcby or despotism in some form is all that is left. " I do not forget the position assumed by some... | |
 | Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...opinions and sentiments , is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity...rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholl)' inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy Or despotism in some form... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible. So that, rejecting the majority principle,... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. I do not forget the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 pages
...opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. I do not forget the position assumed by some that constitutional questions are to be decided by the... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 pages
...sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to depotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority,...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. I do not forget the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to depotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority,...majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form ia all that is left. I do not forget the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 210 pages
...does, of necessity, fly to nnarcby or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible....anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.\ " I do not forget the position assumed by some that constitutional questions are to be decided by the... | |
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