“The revolutionary Terror, which is attacked for its revolutionary tribunal, its law of suspects and its guillotine, was a process welded to… — Sophie Wahnich Copy Share Image
“For Croly, the entire process of popular sovereignty exercised through representative republicanism, which led to the drafting, adoption, and ratification of the… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“but if the bank is stronger than the sword or the sceptre of popular sovereignty, the end will be the end of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Our contemporaries are constantly wracked by two warring passions: they feel the need to be led and the desire to remain free.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Bleeding Kansas and the Caning of Charles Sumner The reaction to the Kansas-Nebraska Act was intense, and in many ways violent.… — Lance T. Stewart Copy Share Image
I do not want to abandon representative democracy. I want to see it balanced by popular sovereignty, especially the variety known as… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“Because widespread participation is so central to popular sovereignty, we can say that the less political participation there is in a society,… — Edward S. Greenberg Copy Share Image
The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which… — George Packer Copy Share Image
We should remember that the Declaration of Independence is not merely a historical document. It is an explicit recognition that our rights… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where is democratic process or popular sovereignty for the endangered population? It cannot be "given" or "allocated" by some other power without… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There is a tension between parliamentary and popular sovereignty. A lively, meaningful democracy would achieve a balance between the two. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
One thing which Stephen A. Douglas was temperamentally incapable of doing was admitting he was wrong. He always believed that 'popular sovereignty'… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
“The Compromise of 1850 was authored by the legendary Whig politician Henry Clay. In addition to admitting California to the Union as… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
Was all of Stephen A. Douglas's promotion of 'popular sovereignty' a plausible device for getting him elected president? With his death in… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between… — George Will Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, the issue of whether Kansas would be admitted to the union as a slave or free state was to be decided… — Lance T. Stewart Copy Share Image
“Some were Levellers, an egalitarian movement that flowered briefly in the late 1640s. Strikingly modern in their aims, the Levellers wanted religious… — Charles Spencer Copy Share Image
“Popular sovereignty may be fine in theory but not when the citizenry are so obviously in need of "re-education" by their betters.… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“One voice was raised in dissent. A Springfield lawyer, a former member of Congress and longtime Whig named Abraham Lincoln, took up… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
“Of course, the irony is that the kind of centralized administrative state Croly advocated, and which surrounds us today and is managed… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“In the upper echelons of the Church, the authoritarian and anti-liberal elements within fascism resonated with those – and they included Pius… — Christopher Duggan Copy Share Image
“Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions: they want to be led, and they wish to remain free. As they… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions; they want to be led, and they wish to remain free: as they… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
