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. Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson - Seite 290 von Thomas Jefferson - 1830 Vollansicht -
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