 I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise THEIR CONTROL WITH A WHOLESOME DISCRETION, THE REMEDY IS NOT TO TAKE IT FROM THEM, BUT TO INFORM THEIR DISCRETION...  Putnam's Monthly - Página 104Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1908
...we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control (of the ultimate powers of society) with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to...education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power. (Ford X, 161 — 1820.) He did not believe and he could not believe that the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1899
...from that is quite dangerous enough^] I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the soc1ety but the people themselves ; and if we think them not...education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power. Pardon me, Sir, for this difference of opinion. My personal interest in such... | |
 | Horace Wiley Philbrook - 1899 - 514 páginas
...place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. * * * I know no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves ; and if...them, but to inform their discretion by education." It must be borne in mind, however, that in Jefferson's time the population of the nation consisted... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 476 páginas
...judges from that is quite dangerous enough. I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think...discretion by education. This is the true corrective for abuses of constitutional power. (To ,Mr. Jarvis, 1820. C. VII., 178.) JUDICIARY, FEDERAL. — -But... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1905
...are responsible to the people in their elective capacity. The exemption of the judges from that is quite dangerous enough. I know no safe depository...education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power. Pardon me, Sir, for this difference of opinion. My personal interest in such... | |
 | Joseph Nimmo (Jr.) - 1906 - 15 páginas
...Jarvis, written from Monticello in the year 1820, Mr. Jefferson said : " I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people...but to inform their discretion by education." This as sharply defines the present situation in regard to the proposition of governmental rate-making as... | |
 | Charles Grenfill Washburn - 1916 - 245 páginas
...responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. ... I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people...them, but to inform their discretion by education. A case illustrating how judges may differ is that of Coppage vs. Kansas, decided by the Supreme Court... | |
 | Charles Grenfill Washburn - 1916 - 245 páginas
...responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. ... I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people...them, but to inform their discretion by education. A case illustrating how judges may differ is that of Coppage vs. Kansas, decided by the Supreme Court... | |
 | Richard Franklin Pettigrew - 1921 - 445 páginas
...are responsible to the people in their elective capacity. The exemption of the judges from that is quite dangerous enough. I know no safe depository...EDUCATION. - THIS IS THE TRUE CORRECTIVE OF ABUSES OF CONSTITUTIONAL POWER. PARDON ME, SIR, FOR THIS DIFFERENCE OF OPINION. MY PERSONAL INTEREST IN SUCH... | |
 | Richard Franklin Pettigrew - 1922 - 441 páginas
...are responsible to the people in their elective capacity. The exemption of the judges from that is quite dangerous enough. I know no safe depository...EDUCATION. THIS IS THE TRUE CORRECTIVE OF ABUSES OF CONSTITUTIONAL POWER. PARDON ME, SIR, FOR THIS DIFFERENCE OF OPINION. MY PERSONAL INTEREST IN SUCH... | |
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