 | Roger Milton Barrus - 2004 - 178 páginas
...Republic 414b-415d. 24. Jefferson in his first Inaugural Address reminded the American people of the "sacred principle, that though the will of the majority...the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate which would be oppression." Thomas Jefferson's first Inaugural Address... | |
 | Michael Cody - 2004 - 220 páginas
...Britain and Europe, provided the foundation of such stability, and the president told his listeners to "bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the...prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable." And to support advancement of the citizenry's ability to reason well, Jefferson identified "the diffusion... | |
 | Larry D. Kramer - 2004 - 376 páginas
...society."116 This was Jefferson's point when he urged in his first inaugural address that Americans "bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the...cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable."117 Ensuring that the will of the majority was reasonable was a responsibility of leadership.... | |
 | John Ferling - 2004 - 288 páginas
...decisions of the majority" but cautioned that "to be rightful" the popular will "must be reasonable," for "the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression." Civil authorities must be supreme over the military, he said, and he advocated... | |
 | Stephen J. Wayne - 2004 - 210 páginas
...Reapportionment Oecisions 8tere Glickman All, too, will hear to mind this sacred principle, tint thongh tiie will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to he rightfnl mnst he reasonahle; that the minority possess their eqnal rights which eqnal law mnst protect,... | |
 | Susan Dunn - 2004 - 396 páginas
...memorable provisos: that the will of the majority must be "reasonable" in order to be "rightful," and that the "minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect." Jefferson's message was not only about majority rule. Rather it wove together majoritarianism and the... | |
 | Michael Warren - 2005 - 408 páginas
...law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society."— Thomas Jefferson to P. Dupont, 1816. "Bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the...the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression." — Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801 "It... | |
 | Kenneth R. Bowling, Donald R. Kennon - 2005 - 238 páginas
...his fellow citizens to "unite in common efforts for the common good. All too will bear in mind the sacred principle that though the will of the majority...the Minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression." Jefferson closed by articulating his vision... | |
 | Vijaya Kumar - 2013 - 212 páginas
...themselves under the will of the law, and unite in common efforts for the common good. All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the...the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will be rightful, must be reasonable, that the minority possess their equal rights which equal law must... | |
 | John A. Marini, Ken Masugi - 2005 - 406 páginas
...1t is for this reason that Thomas Jefferson would remind the people in his First 1naugural Address, that "though the will of the majority is in all cases...prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable." The Constitution prevents a majority from giving up its reason in the service of its will. Even the... | |
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All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect and to violate... 
