| 1920 - 782 Seiten
...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... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1978 - 1290 Seiten
...Toward the end of his long and illustrious career, Thomas Jefferson put the same point in this way : "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew this age well ; I belonged to it, and labored 'with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very... | |
| 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.... | |
| Thomas R. Cole - 1987 - 324 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 - 1346 Seiten
...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 - 1312 Seiten
...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.... | |
| Dorothy Heathcote - 1991 - 219 Seiten
...itself. Like the generation of the revolutionary dead we have a destiny to create. Thomas Jefferson said: Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of a preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what 198 they did to be beyond amendment ...... | |
| Morton J. Frisch - 1992 - 50 Seiten
...most precise formulation on the imperfection of constitutions as constitutions was his statement that "some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment . . . But I know . . . that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human... | |
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