Some historians- those biographical and specialist historians already referred to- in their simplicity failing to understand the question of the meaning of power, seem to consider that the collective will of the people is unconditionally transferred to historical persons, and therefore when describing some single state they assume that particular power to be the one absolute and real power, and that any other force opposing this is not a power but a violation of power- mere violence.
Recognizing the falsity of this view of history, another set of historians say that power rests on a conditional delegation of the will of the people to their rulers, and that historical leaders have power only conditionally on carrying out the program that the will of the people has by tacit agreement prescribed to them.
With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united
people -- a
people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence.
Creating ones were first of all
peoples, and only in late times individuals; verily, the individual himself is still the latest creation.
Then the killing ceased, because none had now the strength to kill, and the
people lay panting in heaps upon the ground, the living and the dead together.
In this period they had witnessed the deadly struggle between the two parties, into which the
people of the United Provinces, after their separation from the crown of Spain, had divided themselves.
The House of Representatives will derive its powers from the
people of America; and the
people will be represented in the same proportion, and on the same principle, as they are in the legislature of a particular State.
"The
people cannot help knowing; the sense of their own destinies is always in the
people, and at such moments as the present that sense finds utterance," said Sergey Ivanovitch with conviction, glancing at the old bee-keeper.
He was an old lawyer; and he could not realize that the
people would do anything so utterly lawless as to assault him in his peaceful home.
Johnson was far better known than Macpherson, most
people agreed with him and believed that Macpherson had told a "literary lie," and that he had made up all the stories.
By the time we had paddled well out into the current, we had drifted so far downstream that we were in full view of the Fire
People's abiding-place.
During the days of slavery, and since, the town had been a centre for the education of the white
people. This was an added advantage, for the reason that I found the white
people possessing a degree of culture and education that is not surpassed by many localities.
