 | Kenneth R. Bowling, Donald R. Kennon - 2005 - 225 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 - 200 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, John Marini, Ken Masugi - 2005 - 388 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... | |
 | Noah M. Jedidiah Pickus - 2005 - 257 páginas
...rights. " [B]ear in mind this sacred principle," Thomas Jefferson said in his First Inaugural Address, "that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable."7 To ensure this reasonableness, many framers and early legislators focused on the importance... | |
 | Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - 2005 - 304 páginas
...explained in his First Inaugural Address, "the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, but that will to be rightful must be reasonable, that...minority possess their equal rights which equal law must protect."4" A government built upon the consent of the governed, operating through majority will and... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough - 1963 - 328 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...rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. Let us, then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore... | |
 | John J. Patrick - 2006 - 112 páginas
...expressed this concept of democracy in 1801 in his First Inaugural Address. He said, All . . . will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the...rights, which equal law must protect and to violate would be oppression. In every genuine democracy today, majority rule is both endorsed and limited by... | |
 | John P. Kaminski - 2005 - 95 páginas
...Federalists." He reminded Federalists and Republicans alike that though the "sacred principle" of majority rule "is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful...rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppressio11." He pleaded with his countrymen to "unite with one heart and one mind" to restore... | |
 | Peter Read, Gary Meyers, Bob Reece - 2006 - 239 páginas
...President, 1975: 291, which articulated 'the creed of our political faith', exemplified this concern: 'Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be right must be reasonable; that the minority possesses their equal rights, which equal law must protect.'... | |
 | Michael Warren - 2007 - 236 páginas
...inherent tension between republican government and the protection of unalienable rights: "All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the...rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression." In other words, simply because the Constitution was guided by the polestar of... | |
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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... 
