| United States. Congress. House. Internal Security Committee - 1974 - 630 páginas
...of processes of change by a rule of the majority. "Unanimity is impossible," said President Lincoln, "the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement,...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... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1977 - 292 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 wholly inadmissable; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy, or despotism in some form, is all... | |
| Hadley Arkes - 1986 - 448 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 wholly inadmissable; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy, or despotism in some form, is all... | |
| Frederick E. Snyder, Surakiart Sathirathai - 1987 - 884 páginas
...true sovereign of a free people. Whosoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as...principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.12 (emphasis added). The partition of India in 1947 is an apt illustration of disregarding Lincoln's... | |
| William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - 868 páginas
...etc., and the owner had the freedom of choice to decide what they wanted to do with their own property: I do not forget the position assumed by some that...questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court. ...At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital... | |
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