From Oligarchy to Republicanism: The Great Task of Reconstruction by Forrest Nabors

Author:Forrest Nabors
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, General, 19th Century, Political Science, American Government, Legislative Branch, History & Theory, Political Ideologies
ISBN: 9780826273918
Publisher: University of Missouri
Published: 2017-12-28T00:00:00+00:00

Because a man is weak, because he is ignorant, because he is imbecile, does not confer the right upon the first man who is wiser or stronger than he to subject him to minister entirely to the wishes of the stronger man. If you come to that, . . . then we have receded to the old idea; we have not gained anything. If physical force is the rule, you have the divine right of every king, and every emperor, and every monarch, to reign over his subjects, and the right of the privileged orders everywhere. . . . I had supposed that we had been singularly privileged in coming out from that old absurdity, and making a declaration that puts us infinitely ahead of every other nation. I never heard it denied until I reached the Senate of the United States; . . . and that we are to go back for our principles of government to the thirteenth century, and find there the divine right of kings reigning in full force.20

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