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  • To Jefferson in Paris he wrote, "The new government has my best wishes and most fervent prayers for its success and prosperity; but whether I shall have anything more to do with it, besides praying for it, depends on the future suffrage of freemen."†   (source)
  • Not a man in town thought it mattered a hoot about women voting, and only two ladies went to the first women's suffrage meeting Miss Love set up.†   (source)
  • Like many other former Abolitionists, she became interested in the movement for women's suffrage.†   (source)
  • They think the national government should not be involved with any part of internal administration, and that the States have equal suffrage.†   (source)
  • He listens as Lincoln talks of extending suffrage to literate blacks and those who fought for the Union.†   (source)
  • The lady folks of this town wouldn't have the vote if it wasn't for you, fightin' to give 'em all that suffrage.†   (source)
  • As a girl of sixteen she denounced it while arguing the case for women's suffrage in her 1913 high scl,00l debate.†   (source)
  • This became increasingly possible as universal manhood suffrage became general early in the nineteenth century.†   (source)
  • None of this universal suffrage nonsense there.†   (source)
  • "There's a whole club, the New York Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage," she said.†   (source)
  • ; NO TO SUFFRAGE; KEEP THE FAIRER SEX ABOVE THE FRAY!†   (source)
  • At least she knew a date for one hope: Next year, she would march in the suffrage parade.†   (source)
  • I've convinced her that suffrage is part of that.†   (source)
  • The women's suffrage movement was thus forced to raise money mostly from sympathetic men.†   (source)
  • Row after row of women dressed in white carried huge signs: VOTES FOR WOMEN; NEW YORKERS FOR SUFFRAGE;†   (source)
  • She watched a woman passing through the crowd, handing out fliers that said SUFFRAGE NOW in big print at the top.†   (source)
  • "When Mr. Wellington died," Mrs. Livingston says, "he left most of his fortune to the suffrage movement."†   (source)
  • So you can read English a little bit better, so you handed out a few suffrage fliers—do you think that that's enough?†   (source)
  • There's going to he a suffrage parade here in New York City, just like the ones they've had in London….†   (source)
  • "Listen, it's not so much to ask, to go to a parade on a Saturday afternoon just once in our lives, to call out our support for suffrage.†   (source)
  • "Don't you remember that suffrage rally where those awful men started booing and throwing rotten tomatoes?†   (source)
  • Even at the suffrage parade she'd kept an eye out, ready to duck behind a street light or a sign post if she saw Eleanor Kensington or any of that crowd.†   (source)
  • This was the newest way the rich women had decided to support the strike: with an automobile parade, an idea they'd taken from the suffrage movement in England.†   (source)
  • She remembers the three girls being mad for suffrage, each one topping the other marveling at the glories that would come when women had a voice in government.†   (source)
  • Jane knew about other kinds of women now: women who stood up and spoke out for suffrage, even when men threw rotten tomatoes and tried to boo them off the stage.†   (source)
  • She expected Bella and Jane to make some sort of joke to lighten the mood, to give themselves a way out—maybe something like, "You think we could die at this suffrage parade?†   (source)
  • Eleanor said the speaker had been particularly brave to take on the issue of marriage, since Mrs. Belmont, who'd just donated a new headquarters for the suffrage movement, had forced her own daughter to marry against her will.†   (source)
  • Looking around, I noticed a small poster tacked on the wall, advertising a women's suffrage speech in Baltimore in 1888.†   (source)
  • Suffrage, as preposterous as it sounds, means a black man might someday become president of the United States.†   (source)
  • Shortly afterward she went to Boston where she filled two speaking engagements, one at a meeting of the New England Antislavery Society on May 2 7th, the other at a women's suffrage meeting on the 1st of June.†   (source)
  • During turbulent and factious times, a majority might deny a specific group of people the fundamental right of freedom—suffrage.†   (source)
  • Our guests were invited, in part, to help us celebrate the amending of the state constitution in support of the suffrage movement.†   (source)
  • I didn't know whether Miss Hannah Lee thought the suffrage movement was getting too grim and made this up to poke fun at herself and the rest of us, or whether some printer did it as an insult.†   (source)
  • Problems from States' Equal Suffrage†   (source)
  • In the nineteenth century, wealthy American women disdained the women's suffrage movement, instead contributing generously to men's colleges and schools, and to churches and charities.†   (source)
  • "Within a year of suffrage law enactment, patterns of legislative roll call voting shifted, and local public health spending rose by roughly 35 percent," Professor Miller wrote.†   (source)
  • She gave us lectures on women's suffrage, Shakespeare, Beethoven, English history, and horticulture, and always had two freezers of homemade ice cream, which was why we all went.†   (source)
  • Southern States might argue that the Constitution doesn't require that all States have the same suffrage policy.†   (source)
  • The Suffrage campaign was no doubt to blame.†   (source)
  • Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).†   (source)
  • Indeed a man threw a stone at her at some meeting; and my mother, who had signed an anti-suffrage manifesto, holding that women had enough to do in their own homes without a vote, made kind enquiries through us, of the Dilke's governess.†   (source)
  • Now, the Illinois Constitution of 1818 had already granted the suffrage to all white male inhabitants of twenty-one or over without further qualification, so that Lincoln's proposal actually involved a step backward.†   (source)
  • The words were written twelve years before the first Women's Rights Convention met at Seneca Falls, and even then, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton proposed to include suffrage among other demands, her colleague, the Quakeress Lucretia Mott, had chided: "Elizabeth, thee will make us ridiculous.†   (source)
  • After his remarks upon suffrage he abruptly questioned her about herself.†   (source)
  • At the flat they found her two housemates and a girl who had been to jail for suffrage.†   (source)
  • She was talking at dinner to a generalissima of suffrage.†   (source)
  • Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage[167] of the world.†   (source)
  • To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant.†   (source)
  • "Citizens," pursued Enjolras, "this is the Republic, and universal suffrage reigns.†   (source)
  • Universal suffrage does therefore, in point of fact, invest the poor with the government of society.†   (source)
  • Capitola, Mrs. Ross McGurk, had been opposed to woman suffrage— until she learned that women were certain to get the vote—but she was a complete controller of virtuous affairs.†   (source)
  • …and years; yet the spiritual triumph which he felt in achieving with ease so many fabulous ages of canonical penances did not wholly reward his zeal of prayer, since he could never know how much temporal punishment he had remitted by way of suffrage for the agonizing souls; and fearful lest in the midst of the purgatorial fire, which differed from the infernal only in that it was not everlasting, his penance might avail no more than a drop of moisture, he drove his soul daily through…†   (source)
  • She gave one of her town houses for a Suffrage headquarters, produced one of her own plays at the Princess Theater, was arrested for picketing during a garment-makers' strike, etc. I am never able to believe that she has much feeling for the causes to which she lends her name and her fleeting interest.†   (source)
  • "One admits that the arguments against the suffrage ARE extraordinarily strong," said a girl opposite, leaning forward and crumbling her bread.†   (source)
  • He says the most horrid things about woman's suffrage so nicely, and when I said I believed in equality he just folded his arms and gave me such a setting down as I've never had.†   (source)
  • "And oh, by the way, we must oppose this movement of Mrs. Potbury's to have the state clubs come out definitely in favor of woman suffrage.†   (source)
  • Through her Carol met commanders and majors, newspapermen, chemists and geographers and fiscal experts from the bureaus, and a teacher who was a familiar of the militant suffrage headquarters.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the best known of his plays was "The Merchant of Venice," having a beautiful love story and a fine appreciation of a woman's brains, which a woman's club, even those who did not care to commit themselves on the question of suffrage, ought to appreciate.†   (source)
  • With the great war, workmen in every nation showing a desire to control industries, Russia hinting a leftward revolution against Kerensky, woman suffrage coming, there seemed to be plenty of problems for the Reverend Mr. Zitterel to call on America to face.†   (source)
  • From her work and from her association with women who had organized suffrage associations in hostile cities, or had defended political prisoners, she caught something of an impersonal attitude; saw that she had been as touchily personal as Maud Dyer.†   (source)
  • They welcomed Carol, asked about her husband, gave her advice regarding colic in babies, passed her the gingerbread and scalloped potatoes at church suppers, and in general made her very unhappy and lonely, so that she wondered if she might not enlist in the militant suffrage organization and be allowed to go to jail.†   (source)
  • And what worthier candidate,—more wise and learned, more noted for philanthropic liberality, truer to safe principles, tried oftener by public trusts, more spotless in private character, with a larger stake in the common welfare, and deeper grounded, by hereditary descent, in the faith and practice of the Puritans,—what man can be presented for the suffrage of the people, so eminently combining all these claims to the chief-rulership as Judge Pyncheon here before us?†   (source)
  • Athens, then, with her universal suffrage, was after all merely an aristocratic republic in which all the nobles had an equal right to the government.†   (source)
  • The exception at last becomes the rule, concession follows concession, and no stop can be made short of universal suffrage.†   (source)
  • That which universal suffrage has effected in its liberty and in its sovereignty cannot be undone by the street.†   (source)
  • "Ginger Nut," said I, willing to enlist the smallest suffrage in my behalf, "what do you think of it?"†   (source)
  • It was rather a choice between suffrage and slavery, after endless blood and gold had flowed to sweep human bondage away.†   (source)
  • First, a modified monarchy, till Arthur's days were done, then the destruction of the throne, nobility abolished, every member of it bound out to some useful trade, universal suffrage instituted, and the whole government placed in the hands of the men and women of the nation there to remain.†   (source)
  • If all the inhabitants of the Union had the suffrage—but a suffrage which should only extend to the choice of their legislators in Congress—they would require but few newspapers, because they would only have to act together on a few very important but very rare occasions.†   (source)
  • In the fifties we were near enough the echoes of the French Revolution to believe pretty thoroughly in universal suffrage.†   (source)
  • The one was to overthrow the Catholic Church and set up the Protestant faith on its ruins —not as an Established Church, but a go-as-you-please one; and the other project was to get a decree issued by and by, commanding that upon Arthur's death unlimited suffrage should be introduced, and given to men and women alike—at any rate to all men, wise or unwise, and to all mothers who at middle age should be found to know nearly as much as their sons at twenty-one.†   (source)
  • …when ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.†   (source)
  • If such a peon should run away, the sheriff, elected by white suffrage, can usually be depended on to catch the fugitive, return him, and ask no questions.†   (source)
  • But perhaps the most powerful of the causes which tend to mitigate the excesses of political association in the United States is Universal Suffrage.†   (source)
  • Universal suffrage has this admirable property, that it dissolves riot in its inception, and, by giving the vote to insurrection, it deprives it of its arms.†   (source)
  • Nearly all the former ones had become leaders by the silent suffrage of their fellows, had sought to lead their own people alone, and were usually, save Douglass, little known outside their race.†   (source)
  • In countries in which universal suffrage exists the majority is never doubtful, because neither party can pretend to represent that portion of the community which has not voted.†   (source)
  • The solution of everything by universal suffrage being an absolutely modern fact, and all history anterior to this fact being, for the space of four thousand years, filled with violated right, and the suffering of peoples, each epoch of history brings with it that protest of which it is capable.†   (source)
  • They acknowledge Mr. Washington's invaluable service in counselling patience and courtesy in such demands; they do not ask that ignorant black men vote when ignorant whites are debarred, or that any reasonable restrictions in the suffrage should not be applied; they know that the low social level of the mass of the race is responsible for much discrimination against it, but they also know, and the nation knows, that relentless color-prejudice is more often a cause than a result of the…†   (source)
  • I hold it to be sufficiently demonstrated that universal suffrage is by no means a guarantee of the wisdom of the popular choice, and that, whatever its advantages may be, this is not one of them.†   (source)
  • It—that barricade, chance, hazard, disorder, terror, misunderstanding, the unknown— had facing it the Constituent Assembly, the sovereignty of the people, universal suffrage, the nation, the republic; and it was the Carmagnole bidding defiance to the Marseillaise.†   (source)
  • On this account universal suffrage would be less dangerous in France than in England, because in the latter country the property on which taxes may be levied is vested in fewer hands.†   (source)
  • *g The system of the jury, as it is understood in America, appears to me to be as direct and as extreme a consequence of the sovereignty of the people as universal suffrage.†   (source)
  • The State of Maryland, which had been founded by men of rank, was the first to proclaim universal suffrage, and to introduce the most democratic forms into the conduct of its government.†   (source)
  • Both of these assemblies emanate from the people; both of them are chosen by universal suffrage; and no voice has hitherto been heard to assert in America that the Senate is hostile to the interests of the people.†   (source)
  • I have remarked that Universal Suffrage is far from producing in America either all the good or all the evil consequences which are assigned to it in Europe, and that its effects differ very widely from those which are usually attributed to it.†   (source)
  • Universal Suffrage I have already observed that universal suffrage has been adopted in all the States of the Union; it consequently occurs amongst different populations which occupy very different positions in the scale of society.†   (source)
  • Sometimes the laws are made by the people in a body, as at Athens; and sometimes its representatives, chosen by universal suffrage, transact business in its name, and almost under its immediate control.†   (source)
  • Many people in Europe are apt to believe without saying it, or to say without believing it, that one of the great advantages of universal suffrage is, that it entrusts the direction of public affairs to men who are worthy of the public confidence.†   (source)
  • The senators are elected by an indirect application of universal suffrage; for the legislatures which name them are not aristocratic or privileged bodies which exercise the electoral franchise in their own right; but they are chosen by the totality of the citizens; they are generally elected every year, and new members may constantly be chosen who will employ their electoral rights in conformity with the wishes of the public.†   (source)
  • The sovereignty of the people and the liberty of the press may therefore be looked upon as correlative institutions; just as the censorship of the press and universal suffrage are two things which are irreconcilably opposed, and which cannot long be retained among the institutions of the same people.†   (source)
  • Again, it may be objected that the poor are never invested with the sole power of making the laws; but I reply, that wherever universal suffrage has been established the majority of the community unquestionably exercises the legislative authority; and if it be proved that the poor always constitute the majority, it may be added, with perfect truth, that in the countries in which they possess the elective franchise they possess the sole power of making laws.†   (source)
  • This opinion has been very candidly set forth by Chancellor Kent, who says, in speaking with great eulogiums of that part of the Constitution which empowers the Executive to nominate the judges: "It is indeed probable that the men who are best fitted to discharge the duties of this high office would have too much reserve in their manners, and too much austerity in their principles, for them to be returned by the majority at an election where universal suffrage is adopted."†   (source)
  • …when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.†   (source)
  • The Grand Master had collected the suffrages, and now in a solemn tone demanded of Rebecca what she had to say against the sentence of condemnation, which he was about to pronounce.†   (source)
  • A flag, floating from the summit of the temple, proclaimed to mankind that it was 'Sleary's Horse-riding' which claimed their suffrages.†   (source)
  • So strangely compounded is the feeling of self-love, that the young soldier, while he knew the utter worthlessness of the suffrages of his savage umpires, forgot the sudden motives of the contest in a wish to excel.†   (source)
  • After all the pentagonal, hexagonal, and whimsical faces, which had succeeded each other at that hole without realizing the ideal of the grotesque which their imaginations, excited by the orgy, had constructed, nothing less was needed to win their suffrages than the sublime grimace which had just dazzled the assembly.†   (source)
  • It is, indeed, difficult to conceive how men who have entirely given up the habit of self-government should succeed in making a proper choice of those by whom they are to be governed; and no one will ever believe that a liberal, wise, and energetic government can spring from the suffrages of a subservient people.†   (source)
  • You may retain your civil rights, but they will be useless to you, for you will never be chosen by your fellow-citizens if you solicit their suffrages, and they will affect to scorn you if you solicit their esteem.†   (source)
  • It rarely happens that an individual can at once collect the majority of the suffrages of a great people; and this difficulty is enhanced in a republic of confederate States, where local influences are apt to preponderate.†   (source)
  • A judicial institution which obtains the suffrages of a great people for so long a series of ages, which is zealously renewed at every epoch of civilization, in all the climates of the earth and under every form of human government, cannot be contrary to the spirit of justice.†   (source)
  • To the eyes of some it has been represented by the venal suffrages of a few of the satellites of power; to others by the votes of a timid or an interested minority; and some have even discovered it in the silence of a people, on the supposition that the fact of submission established the right of command.†   (source)
  • The acceptance of, and continuance hitherto in, the office to which your suffrages have twice called me have been a uniform sacrifice of inclination to the opinion of duty and to a deference for what appeared to be your desire.†   (source)
  • [8] The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage; London, 1913, p. 9.†   (source)
  • Messages of condolence and sympathy are being hourly received from all parts of the different continents and the sovereign pontiff has been graciously pleased to decree that a special missa pro defunctis shall be celebrated simultaneously by the ordinaries of each and every cathedral church of all the episcopal dioceses subject to the spiritual authority of the Holy See in suffrage of the souls of those faithful departed who have been so unexpectedly called away from our midst.†   (source)
  • The right of equal suffrage among the States is another exceptionable part of the Confederation.†   (source)
  • An exact equality of suffrage between the members has also been insisted upon as a leading feature of a confederate government.†   (source)
  • Here he had need All circumspection: and we now no less Choice in our suffrage; for on whom we send The weight of all, and our last hope, relies.†   (source)
  • All the Syphogrants, who are in number two hundred, choose the Prince out of a list of four who are named by the people of the four divisions of the city; but they take an oath, before they proceed to an election, that they will choose him whom they think most fit for the office: they give him their voices secretly, so that it is not known for whom every one gives his suffrage.†   (source)
  • The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.†   (source)
  • The qualifications on which the right of suffrage depend are not, perhaps, the same in any two States.†   (source)
  • And Solon, according to Plutarch, was in a manner compelled, by the universal suffrage of his fellow-citizens, to take upon him the sole and absolute power of new-modeling the constitution.†   (source)
  • At one time, however, their elevation is to be a necessary consequence of the smallness of the representative body; at another time it is to be effected by depriving the people at large of the opportunity of exercising their right of suffrage in the choice of that body.†   (source)
  • To this qualification on the part of the county representatives is added another on the part of the county electors, which restrains the right of suffrage to persons having a freehold estate of the annual value of more than twenty pounds sterling, according to the present rate of money.†   (source)
  • May it not happen, in fine, that the minority of CITIZENS may become a majority of PERSONS, by the accession of alien residents, of a casual concourse of adventurers, or of those whom the constitution of the State has not admitted to the rights of suffrage?†   (source)
  • If we say that five or six hundred citizens are as many as can jointly exercise their right of suffrage, must we not deprive the people of the immediate choice of their public servants, in every instance where the administration of the government does not require as many of them as will amount to one for that number of citizens?†   (source)
  • The Cosmi of Crete were also annually ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE, and have been considered by some authors as an institution analogous to those of Sparta and Rome, with this difference only, that in the election of that representative body the right of suffrage was communicated to a part only of the people.†   (source)
  • Were the objection to be read by one who had not seen the mode prescribed by the Constitution for the choice of representatives, he could suppose nothing less than that some unreasonable qualification of property was annexed to the right of suffrage; or that the right of eligibility was limited to persons of particular families or fortunes; or at least that the mode prescribed by the State constitutions was in some respect or other, very grossly departed from.†   (source)
  • The exception in favor of the equality of suffrage in the Senate, was probably meant as a palladium to the residuary sovereignty of the States, implied and secured by that principle of representation in one branch of the legislature; and was probably insisted on by the States particularly attached to that equality.†   (source)
  • Now it is well enough known, that in all those Cities, the manner of choosing Magistrates, and Officers, was by plurality of suffrages; and (because the ordinary way of distinguishing the Affirmative Votes from the Negatives, was by Holding up of Hands) to ordain an Officer in any of the Cities, was no more but to bring the people together, to elect them by plurality of Votes, whether it were by plurality of elevated hands, or by plurality of voices, or plurality of balls, or beans, or…†   (source)
  • They are chosen by the people as the other magistrates are, by suffrages given in secret, for preventing of factions: and when they are chosen, they are consecrated by the college of priests.†   (source)
  • For want of a portion of such faith, I remember the character of a young lady of quality, which was condemned on the stage for being unnatural, by the unanimous voice of a very large assembly of clerks and apprentices; though it had the previous suffrages of many ladies of the first rank; one of whom, very eminent for her understanding, declared it was the picture of half the young people of her acquaintance.†   (source)
  • "ina katasteses kata polin presbuterous," "For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest constitute Elders in every City," we are to understand the same thing; namely, that hee should call the faithfull together, and ordain them Presbyters by plurality of suffrages.†   (source)
  • …by the law, yet do not excuse themselves, but work, that by their examples they may excite the industry of the rest of the people; the like exemption is allowed to those who, being recommended to the people by the priests, are, by the secret suffrages of the Syphogrants, privileged from labour, that they may apply themselves wholly to study; and if any of these fall short of those hopes that they seemed at first to give, they are obliged to return to work; and sometimes a mechanic that…†   (source)
  • It had been a strange thing, if in a Town, where men perhaps had never seen any Magistrate otherwise chosen then by an Assembly, those of the Town becomming Christians, should so much as have thought on any other way of Election of their Teachers, and Guides, that is to say, of their Presbyters, (otherwise called Bishops,) then this of plurality of suffrages, intimated by S. Paul (Acts 14.†   (source)
  • In the first, the qualifications best adapted to uniting the suffrages of the party, will be more considered than those which fit the person for the station.†   (source)
  • In the first, the qualifications best adapted to uniting the suffrages of the party, will be more considered than those which fit the person for the station.†   (source)
  • The senate of Carthage, also, whatever might be its power, or the duration of its appointment, appears to have been ELECTIVE by the suffrages of the people.†   (source)
  • Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people.†   (source)
  • If we consider the situation of the men on whom the free suffrages of their fellow-citizens may confer the representative trust, we shall find it involving every security which can be devised or desired for their fidelity to their constituents.†   (source)
  • The same house will be the umpire in all elections of the President, which do not unite the suffrages of a majority of the whole number of electors; a case which it cannot be doubted will sometimes, if not frequently, happen.†   (source)
  • …of interest to become willing parties to the cession; as they will have had their voice in the election of the government which is to exercise authority over them; as a municipal legislature for local purposes, derived from their own suffrages, will of course be allowed them; and as the authority of the legislature of the State, and of the inhabitants of the ceded part of it, to concur in the cession, will be derived from the whole people of the State in their adoption of the…†   (source)
  • In republics, persons elevated from the mass of the community, by the suffrages of their fellow-citizens, to stations of great pre-eminence and power, may find compensations for betraying their trust, which, to any but minds animated and guided by superior virtue, may appear to exceed the proportion of interest they have in the common stock, and to overbalance the obligations of duty.†   (source)
  • In the next place, as each representative will be chosen by a greater number of citizens in the large than in the small republic, it will be more difficult for unworthy candidates to practice with success the vicious arts by which elections are too often carried; and the suffrages of the people being more free, will be more likely to centre in men who possess the most attractive merit and the most diffusive and established characters.†   (source)
  • I shall content myself with barely observing here, that of all the confederacies of antiquity, which history has handed down to us, the Lycian and Achaean leagues, as far as there remain vestiges of them, appear to have been most free from the fetters of that mistaken principle, and were accordingly those which have best deserved, and have most liberally received, the applauding suffrages of political writers.†   (source)
  • It may readily be perceived that it would not be more difficult to the legislature of New York to defeat the suffrages of the citizens of New York, by confining elections to particular places, than for the legislature of the United States to defeat the suffrages of the citizens of the Union, by the like expedient.†   (source)
  • Is it not natural that a man who is a candidate for the favor of the people, and who is dependent on the suffrages of his fellow-citizens for the continuance of his public honors, should take care to inform himself of their dispositions and inclinations, and should be willing to allow them their proper degree of influence upon his conduct?†   (source)
  • There may be conceived circumstances in which this disgust of the people, seconding the thwarted ambition of such a favorite, might occasion greater danger to liberty, than could ever reasonably be dreaded from the possibility of a perpetuation in office, by the voluntary suffrages of the community, exercising a constitutional privilege.†   (source)
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