...Lincoln's argument in his First Inaugural Address: "Unanimity is impossible; the role of a minority as a permanent arrangement is wholly inadmissible;...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left." Lincoln, of course, had the Southern states in mind. He knew that one consequence of the rejection...

...the People's government? Perhaps President Lincoln summed it up best in his first inaugural address: 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...

...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 that is left.61 Secession, then, was nothing less than a contradiction of the bedrock principle of republican...

...President Lincoln, referring to the decision in the Dred Scott Case, in his inaugural speech, said: " I do not forget the position assumed by some that...decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decision must be binding in any case on the parties to a suit—as to the object of that suit—while...

...government, is acquiescence on one side or the other. . . . 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. And it was under this heading - "despotism in some form" - that Lincoln went on to discuss the prospect...

...does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible;...decisions must be binding in any case upon the parties to a suit as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration...

...States had given up on the Union.353 coln in his Inaugural Address when he said (in Paragraph 24): I do not forget the position assumed by some, that...decisions must be binding in any case, upon the parties to a suit, as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration,...

...anarchy on to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangements, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority...anarchy, or despotism in some form, is all that is left." The closing portion of his speech dealt with legal changes and the approach of a civil war. It was...

...People's government? Perhaps President Lincoln summed it up best in his first inaugural address: quote, "I do not forget the position assumed by some that...constitutional 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...

...Government? Perhaps President Lincoln summed it up best hi his first inaugural address, quote: "I dp not forget the position assumed by some that constitutional...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...