 | Frederick E. Snyder, Surakiart Sathirathai - 1987 - 884 páginas
...the only true sovereign of a free people. Whosoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a...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... | |
 | Waldo W. Braden - 1993 - 132 páginas
...all the States. A majority [held in restraint by constitutional checks, and limitations, and always changing easily, with deliberate changes of popular...sentiments] is the only true sovereign of a free people. 28 Seward exercised his greatest influence upon Lincoln's famous conclusion. Following are Seward's... | |
 | Henry Steele Commager - 1993 - 148 páginas
...minority president, asserted that a majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly into anarchy or despotism. There it is. All power inheres in the people, but the people may not exercise... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - 1996 - 208 páginas
...Press (1953, 1990). A majority, held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. "First Inaugural Address," March 4, 1861 , reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 4, p.... | |
 | Joseph M. Bessette - 1994 - 316 páginas
...essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissable; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that... | |
 | Frank P. King - 1997 - 260 páginas
...essence of anarchy. A majority, held in restraint by constitutional checks, and limitations, and always changing easily, with deliberate changes of popular...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism.... The chief magistrate derives all his authority from the people.... His duty is to administer the present... | |
 | Neal Riemer, Douglas Simon, Douglas W. Simon - 1997 - 508 páginas
...the force of Lincoln's argument in his First Inaugural Address: "Unanimity is impossible; the role of a minority as a permanent arrangement is wholly...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... | |
 | Luke Mancuso - 1997 - 180 páginas
...section and another: "A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people" (Lincoln IV, 268). With or without consent, in other words, the Union was indissoluble. In 1861 Lincoln... | |
 | Larry Alexander - 2001 - 336 páginas
...no other alterative; for continuing the government, is acquiescence on one side or the other. . . . Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as...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... | |
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Plainly, the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy. 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... 
