 | Leroy G. Dorsey - 2008 - 284 páginas
...passions and yoke them to a common effort. What could be more accommodating than his asking the nation "to bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the...their equal rights, which equal law must protect." It was in this setting that he stated: "every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.... | |
 | David Tucker - 2008 - 182 páginas
...Jefferson's republicanism. Take for example the case of majority rule. In his First Inaugural, Jefferson said that "though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable."48 As a matter of fact, a majority would always have the power to rule in a popular government.... | |
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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... 
