This Land of Liberty |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 41
Page 44
... majority ; if to the legislature , it represents the majority , and implicitly obeys its in- junctions ; if to the executive power , it is appointed by the majority and remains a passive tool in its hands ; the public troops consist of ...
... majority ; if to the legislature , it represents the majority , and implicitly obeys its in- junctions ; if to the executive power , it is appointed by the majority and remains a passive tool in its hands ; the public troops consist of ...
Page 45
... majority . I do not say that tyrannical abuses frequently occur in Amer- ica at the present day ; but I maintain that no sure barrier is established against them . ยท Faith in the divine right of the majority was beginning to supplant ...
... majority . I do not say that tyrannical abuses frequently occur in Amer- ica at the present day ; but I maintain that no sure barrier is established against them . ยท Faith in the divine right of the majority was beginning to supplant ...
Page 240
... majority lies . Only when strictly defined , spatially and temporally , does the distinction between the majority and the minority hold . Every majority is somewhere a minority , and every mi- nority is a potential majority . What we ...
... majority lies . Only when strictly defined , spatially and temporally , does the distinction between the majority and the minority hold . Every majority is somewhere a minority , and every mi- nority is a potential majority . What we ...
Contents
THE UNITED STATES VS | 27 |
THE STATE CAN DO NO WRONG | 83 |
THE STATE CAN DO NO WRONG | 111 |
Copyright | |
10 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
actually Alexander Mitchell Palmer Amendment American American Defense Society anarchist Anthony Comstock Anti-Saloon League arrested Association attorney Attorney-General become bill bootlegger CHAPTER Christian church citizen Civil Committee Comstock Congress conscience Constitution convicted crime criminal danger Debs declared defendants Espionage Act fact flag force free speech freedom of speech German Governor human imprisonment individual institutions Jefferson Judge jury Justice Ku Klux Klan labor later League legislation less liberty liquor majority ment mind Mooney moral murder National Security League natural rights never objectors obscene officers opinion organization patriotism peace perhaps police political President principle prison prohibition protection punishment Sacco Sacco and Vanzetti Senator sentenced Smith Wildman Brookhart Socialist society spirit statute suppression Supreme Court teacher Theodore Schroeder third degree tion trial United Vanzetti violated Wheeler witness words wrote York City Zechariah Chafee