 | 1868 - 450 pages
...is quite dangerous enough. I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society, but tho people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened...true corrective of abuses of constitutional power. " Pardon me, sir, for this difference of opinion i my personal interest in such questions ia entirely... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 750 pages
...mankind. And If we cannot entrust these decisions to the people, then, as Thomas Jefferson once said, "If we think them not enlightened enough to exercise...them but to Inform their discretion by education." OF HON. LEROY JOHNSON OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES Friday, August 20, Í954 Mr. JOHNSON... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1908 - 442 pages
...we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control (of the ultimate powers of society) with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to...true corrective of abuses of constitutional power. (Ford X, 161 — 1820.) He did not believe and he could not believe that the mass of mankind had "been... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1899 - 516 pages
...from that is quite dangerous enough^] I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the soc1ety but the people themselves ; and if we think them not...true corrective of abuses of constitutional power. Pardon me, Sir, for this difference of opinion. My personal interest in such questions is entirely... | |
 | Horace Wiley Philbrook - Judges - 1899 - 540 pages
...place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. * * * I know no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves ; and if...them, but to inform their discretion by education." It must be borne in mind, however, that in Jefferson's time the population of the nation consisted... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pages
...judges from that is quite dangerous enough. I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think...discretion by education. This is the true corrective for abuses of constitutional power. (To ,Mr. Jarvis, 1820. C. VII., 178.) JUDICIARY, FEDERAL. — -But... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1903 - 660 pages
...unconstitutionally, they are responsible to the people in their elective capacity. The exemption of the judges front that is quite dangerous enough. I know no safe depository...true corrective of abuses of constitutional power. Pardon me, Sir, for this difference of opinion. My personal interest in such questions is entirely... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1905 - 598 pages
...criminal action, forming the great mass of the system of law, constitute their particular department. When the legislative or executive functionaries act...true corrective of abuses of constitutional power. Pardon me, Sir, for this difference of opinion. My personal interest in such ques1 64 The Writings... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1905 - 1044 pages
...criminal action, forming the great mass of the system of law, constitute their particular department. • When the legislative or executive functionaries act...true corrective of abuses of constitutional power. Pardon me, Sir, for this difference of opinion. My personal interest in such questions is entirely... | |
 | Joseph Nimmo (Jr.) - Interstate commerce - 1906 - 28 pages
...Jarvis, written from Monticello in the year 1820, Mr. Jefferson said : " I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people...but to inform their discretion by education." This as sharply defines the present situation in regard to the proposition of governmental rate-making as... | |
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise THEIR CONTROL WITH A WHOLESOME DISCRETION, THE REMEDY IS NOT TO TAKE IT FROM THEM, BUT TO INFORM THEIR DISCRETION... 
