 | Thomas Jefferson - 1926 - 514 Seiten
...team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression. . Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was... | |
 | Ross Lee Finney - 1926 - 492 Seiten
...Thomas Jefferson, written in 1816, several years after his final retirement from public life : "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well ; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was... | |
 | Harry Elmer Barnes - 1926 - 638 Seiten
...or ratification, is admirably illustrated by the following opinion of Thomas Jefferson: 27 Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence...preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose that what they did was beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it and labored with it;... | |
 | Frank Abbott Magruder - 1928 - 610 Seiten
...not be changed, but Thomas Jefferson expresses the contrary view in ths following words: "Some men ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age [of the Revolution] well. I belonged to it and labored with it. It deserved well of its... | |
 | Raymond Garfield Gettell - 1928 - 652 Seiten
...duty of election." Jefferson did not share in the growing worship of the Constitution. He did not ' ' look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence...them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be "Compare Condorcet's doctrine that no generation can bind its successor, *ad Paine 's belief in the... | |
 | 1920 - 782 Seiten
...its income, better than rents; its dignity, higher than ancestral acres.—Sam'l F. Miller. "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant—too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1938 - 268 Seiten
...educatorstatesman, Thomas Jefferson. In 1816, after founding both a nation and a university he wrote: "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1938 - 130 Seiten
...educatorstatesman, Thomas Jefferson. In 1816, after founding both a nation and a university he wrote: "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1938 - 100 Seiten
...with a quotation from Thomas Jefferson's famous letter of 1816 on amending the Constitution: Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was... | |
 | Martin Edelman - 1984 - 416 Seiten
...beginning of this change was: "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and they deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.... | |
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. 
