 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...  The Works of Thomas Jefferson - Página 163por Thomas Jefferson - 1905Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Martin Van Buren - 1867 - 466 páginas
...the people themselves ; and if \vc think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with n wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it...discretion by education. This is the true corrective of ahases of constitutional power." Nor have the people been slow to exert their powers to reform abuses... | |
 | United States. Congress - 750 páginas
...mankind. And If we cannot entrust these decisions to the people, then, as Thomas Jefferson once said, "If we think them not enlightened enough to exercise...them but to Inform their discretion by education." OF HON. LEROY JOHNSON OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES Friday, August 20, Í954 Mr. JOHNSON... | |
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...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...true corrective of abuses of constitutional power. (Ford X, 161 — 1820.) He did not believe and he could not believe that the mass of mankind had "been... | |
 | Horace Wiley Philbrook - 1899 - 540 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... | |
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