 | William Jennings Bryan - 1896 - 658 páginas
...of the moment. I read to you from a State paper — from the inaugural address of Abraham Lincoln: I do not forget the position assumed by some that Constitutional questions are to bo decided by the Supreme Court; nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding in any case upon... | |
 | Edward Payson Powell - 1897 - 488 páginas
...supremely a representative of the nation's accumulated common sense. He said in his first inaugural : " I do not forget the position assumed by some that...decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such questions must be binding upon the parties to that suit, while they are also entitled to very high... | |
 | Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - 1897 - 504 páginas
...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 wholy inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism, in some form,... | |
 | 1900 - 470 páginas
...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...anarchy or despotism, in some form, is all that is left. . . . Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other,... | |
 | Eltweed Pomeroy - 1900 - 132 páginas
...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...or despotism, in some form, is all that is left." — Abraham Lincoln, in his first inaugural. "Not the centralization, but the diffusion of power is... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1900 - 186 páginas
...deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. * * * The rule of a minority as a permanent arrangement...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. 48 (February 14, 1861, Speech at Steubenvl11e, Ohio— Complete Works, Vol. I. p. 677.) If the majority... | |
 | Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson - 1901 - 516 páginas
...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...I deny that such decisions must be binding, in any ease, upon the parties to a suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1901 - 262 páginas
...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,...do not forget the position, assumed by some, that consti133 tutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court ; nor do I deny that such decisions... | |
 | 1901 - 638 páginas
...single instance in which a plainly written provision of the Constitution has ever been denied. . . . I do not forget the position assumed by some, that...decisions must be binding in any case upon the parties to the suit, as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 páginas
...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,...inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority principle, 280 anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. I do not forget the position assumed by... | |
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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... 
