...sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people — a mild and safe corrective of abuses which...acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principles of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent...

...anchor of our peace at home, and safety abroad: — a jealous care of the right of election by the people, a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword or revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided: — absolute acquiescence in the decisions of...

...sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people — a mild and safe corrective of abuses which...majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism; a well-disciplined...

...methods of accomplishing the same end. He speaks of "a jealous care of the right of election by the people — a mild and safe corrective of abuses which...revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided." Elections can have this effect only if the will of the majority is respected: "absolute acquiescence...

...absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism; a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars...

...sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of eleC' tion by the people — a mild and safe corrective of abuses which...majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism; a well disciplined...

...anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people—a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped...majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism; a well disciplined...

...anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; 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 peaceful remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital...

...their enemies. He passionately defended majoritarianism. Sounding much like Rousseau, he advocated the "absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority — the vital principle of republics."4 But even Jefferson had his constitutionalist side, and he, too, was in favor of a property...

...always changed without recourse to violence or fraud: a jealous care of the right of election by the people — a mild and safe corrective of abuses which...remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decision of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the...