 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 552 sider
...self-styled republics of Holland, Switzerland, Genoa, Venice, Poland. Were I to assign to this term a precise and definite idea, I would say that, purely...this ingredient of the direct action of the citizens. Such a government is evidently restrained to very narrow limits of space and population. I doubt if... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 sider
...self-styled republics of Holland, Switzerland, Genoa, Venice, Poland. Were I to assign to this term a precise and definite idea, I would say that, purely...acting directly and personally, according to rules estaWished by the majority : and that every other government is more or less republican, in proportion... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1830 - 550 sider
...Holland, Switzerland, Genoa, Venice, Poland. Were I to assign to this term a precise and definite idea, 1 would say, that, purely and simply, it means a government...this ingredient of the direct action of the citizens. Such a government is evidently restrained to very narrow limits of space and population. I doubt if... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 542 sider
...government of laws, whether it be consistent or not with natural right. He demies a republic to be strictly "a government by its citizens in mass, acting directly...or less of this ingredient of the direct action of its citizens." He says that "such a government is evidently restrained to very narrow limits of space... | |
 | 1849 - 736 sider
...essentially constitutes a republic. His definition, I am ashamed to say, is this : " A government by the citizens in mass, acting directly and personally, according to rules established by the majority. "JA definition, at first blush, of pure democracy ! But a moment's reflection brings relief. His meaning... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 636 sider
...Switzerland, Genoa, Venice, Poland. Were I to assign to this term a precise and definite idea, I would say, purely and simply, it means a government by its citizens...this ingredient of the direct action of the citizens. Such a government is evidently restrained to very narrow limits of space and population. I doubt if... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1874 - 580 sider
...flovernment by its citizens in mass, acting directly and personally, accordinr/ to rules established by tlie majority, — and that every other government is more...ingredient of the direct action of the citizens." " Here again, while confessing the unquestionable vagueness of the term according to old examples,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1876 - 578 sider
...Switzerland, Genoa, Venice, Poland. Were I to assign to this term a precise and definite idea, I would say, purely and simply, it means a government by its citizens...ingredient of the direct action of the citizens." ' Here again, while confessing the unquestionable vagueness of the term according to old examples,... | |
 | 1887 - 426 sider
...representative, unless he has a right to vote for that representative? Jefferson defines a republic as "a government, by its citizens in mass, acting directly...according to rules established by the majority;" and he declared every other government to be more or less republican in proportion as it had in its composition... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1899 - 516 sider
...Switzerland, Genoa, Venice, Poland. Were I to assign to this term a precise and definite idea, I would say, purely and simply, it means a government by its citizens...this ingredient of the direct action of the citizens. Such a government is evidently restrained to very narrow limits of space and population. I doubt if... | |
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Were I to assign to this term a precise and definite idea, I would say, purely and simply, it means a government by its citizens in mass, acting directly and personally, according to rules established by the majority... 
