 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - Social Science - 2000 - 466 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Noble E. Cunningham - History - 2001 - 132 pages
...aciniicse.'iuT in , egdPe '" !u' ruit's oi ['1L' Constitution, all will of course arrange themselves j the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is n» he v ill of the l;iw, and unite in common efforts for the common good. ; appeal but u, force, ihe... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 376 pages
...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...immediate parent of despotism; a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war till regulars may relieve them;... | |
 | Joy Hakim - America - 2003 - 356 pages
...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...immediate parent of despotism; a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them;... | |
 | Paul W. Kahn - Law - 1997 - 324 pages
...speaks of "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." Elections can have this effect only if the will of the majority is respected: "absolute acquiescence... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 2003 - 276 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 pages
...safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of eleC' tion by the people — a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution...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... | |
 | Joseph J. Dewey - Fiction - 2003 - 356 pages
...Jefferson, this time from his first Inaugural speech. He advocated... Absolute acquiescence in the decision of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal." "But what about the idea that income taxes are unconstitutional? Wouldn't that justify the tax rebels?"... | |
 | Stephen Howard Browne - Political Science - 2003 - 180 pages
...safety abroad; 5. 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; 6. absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which... | |
 | Claes G. Ryn - Political Science - 2003 - 246 pages
...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... | |
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Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the 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 are lopped by the sword of revolution where... 
