 | John Marshall - 1836 - 500 Seiten
...that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country : — that facility in changes, upon...consistent with the perfect security of liberty is indispensable. Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1836 - 304 Seiten
...surest stajndard, by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a countiy—that facility in changes upon the credit of mere hypothesis...country so extensive as ours, a government of as much vigor as is consistent with the perfect security of liberty is indispensable. Liberty itself will find... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1836 - 304 Seiten
...surest standard, by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country—that facility in changes upon the credit of mere hypothesis...country so extensive as ours, a government of as much vigor as is consistent with the perfect security of liberty is indispensable. Liberty itself will find... | |
 | Tracts - 1836 - 506 Seiten
...impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown. Remember that facility in changes, upon the credit of mere...hypothesis and opinion, exposes to perpetual change ; and remember especially, that for the efficient management of your common interests, a government... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1837 - 246 Seiten
...experience is the surest standard, by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country; that facility in changes, upon the credit...country so extensive as ours, a government of as much vigor as is consistent with the perfect security of liberty, is indispenable. Liberty itself will find... | |
 | George Washington - 1837 - 620 Seiten
...experience is the surest standard, by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country; that facility in changes, upon the credit...country so extensive as ours, a government of as much vigor as is consistent with the perfect security of liberty is indispensable. Liberty itself will find... | |
 | George Washington - 1838 - 114 Seiten
...that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country ; that facility in changes, upon the...consistent with the perfect security of liberty, is indispensable. Liberty itself will find in such a Government, with powers properly distributed and... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1838 - 804 Seiten
...existing Constitution of the country. Faeility in change, upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinions, exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion." This, resumed Mr. C. was the admonition of a patriot and a sage. The proposition which we now have... | |
 | L. Carroll Judson - 1839 - 376 Seiten
...which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country; that facility in change upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion, exposes...consistent with the perfect security of liberty, is indispensable. Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and... | |
 | 1840 - 128 Seiten
...invited, remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments, as of other human institutions ; that experience is...hypothesis and opinion ; and remember especially, that from the efficient management of your common interests, in a country so extensive as ours, a government... | |
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In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments as of other human institutions — that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency... 
