Power is the collective will of the people transferred, by expressed or tacit consent, to their chosen rulers.
If power be the collective will of the people transferred to their ruler, was Pugachev a representative of the will of the people?
A principality is created either by
the people or by the nobles, accordingly as one or other of them has the opportunity; for the nobles, seeing they cannot withstand
the people, begin to cry up the reputation of one of themselves, and they make him a prince, so that under his shadow they can give vent to their ambitions.
It is worthy of remark that not only the first, but every succeeding Congress, as well as the late convention, have invariably joined with
the people in thinking that the prosperity of America depended on its Union.
All night long
the people drew on from every side towards the kraal, and, as they came in thousands and tens of thousands, they filled the night with their cries, till it seemed as though the whole world were mourning, and loudly.
Holland, in which no particle of the supreme authority is derived from
the people, has passed almost universally under the denomination of a republic.
I'm one of
the people myself, and I don't feel it."
The Convention assembled at Philadelphia had themselves no direct authority from
the people. Their authority was all derived from the State Legislatures.
Accordingly, he wrote to
the people who had applied to him for the information, that he did not know of any white man to suggest, but if they would be willing to take a coloured man, he had one whom he could recommend.
Hutchinson had written the history of our Puritan forefathers, he would have known what the temper of
the people was, and so have taken care not to wrong them."
For four months Macpherson wandered about the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, listening to the tales of
the people and writing them down.
For if liberty and equality, as some persons suppose, are chiefly to be found in a democracy, it must be most so by every department of government being alike open to all; but as
the people are the majority, and what they vote is law, it follows that such a state must be a democracy.
