 The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle ; and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere...  Niles' National Register - Seite 2951817Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency - 1948 - 1026 Seiten
...his crime and the punishment of his guilt. It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens. "The free men of America did not wait until usurped power had strengthened itself by experience and... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1961 - 780 Seiten
...public policy rather than constitutional law. The American Jewish Committee believes with Madison that "it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties." Thus, the Hill-Burton Act for Federal aid to hospitals including sectarian institutions and the National... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1961 - 724 Seiten
...public policy rather than constitutional law. The American Jewish Committee believes with Madison that "it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties." Thus, the Hill-Burton Act for Federal aid to hospitals including sectarian institutions and the National... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1963 - 336 Seiten
...however, it may be appropriate to say in the words of James Madison, the author of the First Amendment : "[I]t is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. . . . Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1963 - 700 Seiten
...is today a trickling stream may all too soon become a raging torrent and, in the words of Madison, "it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties." Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments, quoted in Everson, supra, at 65. It is insisted... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1964 - 648 Seiten
...is today a trickling stream may all too soon become a raging torrent and, in the words of Madison, "it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties." Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments, quoted in Everson, supra, at 65. It is insisted... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1984 - 192 Seiten
...Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments before the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia: It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment...late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. They... | |
 | Richard C. McMillan - 1984 - 326 Seiten
...function to the people themselves and to those the people choose to look to for religious guidance. [I]t is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. . . . Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all... | |
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