 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1915 - 458 Seiten
...constitutions ought to respond to social needs and aspirations. "Some men," says Thomas Jefferson, "look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. But I know that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As... | |
 | Frank Abbott Magruder - 1921 - 460 Seiten
...not be changed, but Thomas Jefferson expresses the contrary view in the following words : " Some men ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more...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 country. It... | |
 | Randolph Leigh - 1923 - 234 Seiten
...into conflict with his cousin. Jefferson wrote thus of blind worship of established institutions : "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they Marshall and Jefferson 81 did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it and labored... | |
 | 1920
...lands; 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... | |
 | Martin Edelman - 1984 - 399 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.... | |
 | Thomas R. Cole - 1987 - 316 Seiten
...Jefferson, invoked during congressional debate over the 1983 Social Security amendments, are illuminating: Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well. ... It was very like the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1989
...stronger central government. You will adopt Aristotle's stance on flexibility of laws, when you say: "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdoia more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1989
...stronger central government. You will adopt Aristotle's stance on flexibility of laws, when you say: "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the A-4 3761 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. 
