 | 1981 - 640 Seiten
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 | 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.... | |
 | P. Sood - 1984 - 296 Seiten
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 | 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... | |
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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. 
