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Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1906 ... - Page 135
by Benson John Lossing - 1906
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Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Volume 7

John Sanderson - 1827 - 374 pages
...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...majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism: — a well disciplined...
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A History of the United States of America

Charles Augustus Goodrich - Explorers - 1823 - 428 pages
...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...decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republicks, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotisms...
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A History of the United States of America

Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1824 - 434 pages
...home, and safety abroad : — a jealous care of the right of election by the people, a mild and safej corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword...decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republicks, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of depotisms...
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A History of the United States of America: From the First Discovery to the ...

Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1825 - 450 pages
...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...decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republicks, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of depotisms...
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Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising ..., Volume 1; Volume 6; Volume 50

United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 pages
...political maxim, "that absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority — the vital principle in republics — from which there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and the immediate parent of despotism!" If this veto is the legitimate right of a State, she ought not...
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A Selection of Eulogies: Pronounced in the Several States, in Honor of Those ...

1826 - 438 pages
...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,...acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principles of Republics, from which there is no appeal but to force — a well disciplined militia,...
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Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of ...

United States. Congress. Senate - Legislative journals - 1828 - 604 pages
...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...majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism: a well disciplined...
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Lives of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence

Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1829 - 494 pages
...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...majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotisms : a well disciplined...
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A Universal History of the United States of America: Embracing the Whole ...

Citizen of the United States - United States - 1829 - 504 pages
...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...majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotisms : — a well disciplined...
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The Annals of America: From the Discovery by Columbus in the Year ..., Volume 2

Abiel Holmes - America - 1829 - 606 pages
...jealous care of die right of election by the people, a mild and safe corrective of abuses which arc lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable...majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism ; a well disciplined...
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