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" Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? "
Race, Citizenship, and Law in American Literature - Page 5
by Gregg D. Crane - 2002 - 299 pages
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A Yankee in Canada: With Anti-slavery and Reform Papers

Henry David Thoreau - Civil disobedience - 1866 - 314 pages
...which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. Can there not be a government in which majorities...to the legislator ? Why has every man a conscience, then ? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate...
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Anti-slavery and Reform Papers

Henry David Thoreau - Slavery - 1890 - 158 pages
...which the majority rale in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. Can there not be a ! government in which majorities do not virtually decide j right and wrong, but conscience ? — in which majorities ' decide only those questions to which...
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A Yankee in Canada: With Anti-slavery and Reform Papers

Henry David Thoreau - Québec (Province) - 1892 - 304 pages
...which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. Can there not be a government in which majorities...majorities decide only those questions to which the rule oe expediency is applicable ? Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his...
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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 10

Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 462 pages
...which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.) Can there not be a government in which / majorities...to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate...
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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 10

Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 452 pages
...which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. Can there not be a government in which majorities...to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate...
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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: With Bibliographical ..., Volume 10

Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 454 pages
...which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. Can there not be a government in which majorities...majorities decide only those questions to which the rule 134 CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE of expediency is applicable? Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least...
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Miscellanies

Henry David Thoreau - 1898 - 462 pages
...which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. Can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?—an which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule /% of expediency is...
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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 4

Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 534 pages
...as far as men understand it. Can there | not be a government in which majorities do not virN tually decide right and wrong, but conscience ? — in which...questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable ?|_Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator?...
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Why Freedom Matters

Norman Angell - Draft - 1919 - 60 pages
...stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast. Henry David Thoreau: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience: Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least...to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterwards. It is not desirable to / > cultivate...
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Man Or the State?: A Group of Essays by Famous Writers

Waldo Ralph Browne - State, The - 1919 - 166 pages
...which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. Can there not be a government in which majorities...to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate...
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