Popular Will Quotes
This quotation had a close proximity to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (see linked quote). Although this was probably Lincoln's most famous line, it was not totally original. John Adams came close in a 1774 proclamation (see linked quote). As did John Marshall in his McCulloch v. Maryland decision (see linked quote). There was also Thomas Cooper in 1795 (see linked quote). But the earliest close phrase use appears to be the English cleric, John Wycliffe, in 1382 (see linked quote). It is not known with which of these Lincoln was familiar.
The irony of this quotation is that most North Koreans were conditioned to regard him as a God. There was no place in the world here people had more reverence for a leader—and in this case a brutal, dictatorial, leader.
Describing the situation follow Abraham Lincoln's election.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. Even in a democracy, governments often enact laws that the public disapproves of and fails to enact others that the public wants. Most taxes are examples of the former; gun control legislation, of the latter.
This constitution, 13 years later, became the basis for the national Batavian Constitution.
Jefferson and a number of other Founding Fathers were so against aristocracy and monarchy that the assumed that the only way to prevent it was to have all government officials subjected to annual elections. Jefferson was not at the constitutional convention, while annual elections were considered, the compromise that became the Constitution required 2 year elections for the House and 6 years for the Senate with 4 years for the Presidency.
