... a jealous care of the right of election by the people, a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle... Eloquence of the United States - Página 811827Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Marc Karnis Landy, Sidney M. Milkis - 2008 - 41 páginas
...acquiescence in the decisions of the majority," Jefferson declared in his first inaugural address, "is the vital principle of republics, from which there is no appeal but force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism." Representatives' views, even those of... | |
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