 The Americans hold, that in every state the supreme power ought to emanate from the people; but when once that power is constituted, they can conceive, as it were, no limits to it, and they are ready to admit that it has the right to do whatever it pleases.  Democracy in America - Page 202by Alexis de Tocqueville - 1840Full view - About this book
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1851 - 954 pages
...we shall detect some of the notions which I have just pointed out, and we shall perhaps be surprised to find so much accordance between men who are so...cities, families, or persons ; their minds appear never to have foreseen that it might be possible not to apply with strict uniformity the same laws... | |
 | Alexis Henri C.M. Clérel comte de Tocqueville - 1862 - 456 pages
...we shall detect some of the notions which I have just pointed out, and we shall perhaps be surprised to find so much accordance between men who are so...cities, families, or persons : their minds appear never to have foreseen that it might be possible not to apply with strict uniformity the same laws... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1862 - 526 pages
...we shall detect some of the notions which I have just pointed out, and we shall perhaps be surprised to find so much accordance between men who are so...cities, families, or persons : their minds appear never to have foreseen that it might be possible not to apply with strict uniformity the same laws... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 452 pages
...we shall detect some of the notions which I have just pointed out, and we shall perhaps be surprised to find so much accordance between men who are so...cities, families, or persons : their minds appear never to have foreseen that it might be possible not to apply with strict uniformity the same laws... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1907 - 446 pages
...Parliament, "There shall thy proud wave be stayed." The colonists doubtless also held, as Tocqueville says, " that in every state the supreme power ought to emanate...but when once that power is constituted, . . . they are ready to admit that it has the right to do whatever it pleases. ' ' * But it never entered the... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Political Science - 1980 - 402 pages
...some of the notions I have just pointed out, and we shall perhaps be surprised to find so much accord between men who are so often at variance. The Americans...they can conceive, as it were, no limits to it, and are ready to admit that it has the right to do whatever it pleases. They have not the slightest notion... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Political Science - 1980 - 402 pages
...pointed out, and we shall perhaps be surprised to find so much accord between men who are so.often at variance. The Americans hold that in every state...they can conceive, as it were, no limits to it, and are ready to admit that it has the right to do whatever it pleases. They have not the slightest notion... | |
 | Gregory J. Kasza - History - 2023 - 360 pages
...republic and even refused to grant legislative powers to the state in consequence. De Tocqueville wrote: The Americans hold that in every state the supreme...privileges granted to cities, families, or persons. . . . These ideas take root and spread in proportion as social conditions become more equal and men... | |
 | Stephen Mennell, John F. Rundell - History - 1998 - 260 pages
...variance. The Americans hold, that in every state the supreme power ouglu to emanate from the people: hut when once that power is constituted, they can conceive,...to it. and they are ready to admit that it has the riglu to do whatever it pleases, They have not the sligluest notion of peculiar privileges granted... | |
 | Stephen Mennell, John F. Rundell - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1998 - 260 pages
...everv state the supreme power ouglu to emanate from the people; hut when once that power is constimted. they can conceive. as it were. no limits to it. and they are ready to admit that it has the riglu to do whatever it pleases. They have not the sligluest notion of peculiar privileges granted... | |
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