 | Gregg David Crane - 2002 - 316 Seiten
...Arendt's On Revolution (1963) cites to similar effect Jefferson's intense opposition to "those who 'look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.1" Endorsing Jefferson's rejection of "the injustice that only [the framers'] generation should... | |
 | James L. Golden, Professor Emeritus James L Golden, Alan L. Golden - 2002 - 562 Seiten
...improvement of our society. He voiced this sentiment in a letter to Samuel Kercheval on July 12, 1816: Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom... | |
 | Jim Rough - 2002 - 270 Seiten
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 | James J. Horn, Jan Ellen Lewis, Peter S. Onuf - 2002 - 460 Seiten
...shrine, Jefferson ridiculed those who looked on constitutions with "sanctimonious reverence and deemed them like the Ark of the Covenant too sacred to be touched." He touted his party as following "the guidance of . . . theory."2o In countries "left free," the forms... | |
 | William Quigley - 2008 - 254 Seiten
...much, much better. VA CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO A JOB AT A LIVING WAGE 10 A Constitutional Amendment Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose that what they did to be beyond amendment. ... I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried... | |
 | Andrew S. Trees - 2004 - 238 Seiten
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 | Hannah Arendt - 2003 - 644 Seiten
...occasional, and sometimes violent, antagonism against the Constitution and particularly against those who 'look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched'2 was motivated by a feeling of outrage about the injustice that only his generation should... | |
 | Albert Jay Nock - 2004 - 348 Seiten
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 | R. B. Bernstein - 2004 - 258 Seiten
...that his fellow citizens felt for the early leaders of the Revolution and their political handiwork: Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom... | |
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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. 
