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... Congressional Serial Set - Page 141913Full view - About this book
| Charles Lempriere - 1861 - 336 pages
...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 or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly... | |
| Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...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 or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholl)'... | |
| 1861 - 456 pages
...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 or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - 1861 - 580 pages
...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 or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly... | |
| Orville James Victor - 1861 - 586 pages
...always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, 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 of a minority, as a permanent arrangement,... | |
| Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - 1862 - 764 pages
...limitation, 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 or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 514 pages
...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 or to depotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly... | |
| Edward McPherson - 1864 - 462 pages
...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 or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a> minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...limitation, 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 or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 492 pages
...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 or to depotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly... | |
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