recreant वाक्य

And then on the 26th as the Open Primaries Bill moved to a vote Sulzer declared " If any Democrat in this State is against the Democratic State platform, that man is no true Democrat, and he as the Democratic Governor of the State I shall do everything in my power to drive that recreant Democrat out of the Democratic Party . " In spite of the threat, both Machine and Independent Democrats voted against the bill overwhelmingly.
As Charles A . Lofgren notes in his book, " The Plessy Case, " although Brinton " accepted the'psychical unity'throughout the human species, " he claimed " all races were'not equally endowed,'which disqualified [ some of ] them from the atmosphere of modern enlightenment . " He asserted some have " . . . an inborn tendency, constitutionally recreant to the codes of civilization, and therefore technically criminal . " Further, he said the characteristics of " races, nations, tribes . . . supply the only sure foundations for legislation, not " a priori " notions of the rights of man ."