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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. "
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson - Seite 290
von Thomas Jefferson - 1830
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Advanced Civics: The Spirit, the Form, and the Functions of the American ...

Samuel Eagle Forman - 1915 - 486 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...
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American Government in 1921: With a Consideration of the Problems of Democracy

Frank Abbott Magruder - 1921 - 504 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...
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Representative Government and a Parliament of Industry: A Study of the ...

Herman Finer - 1923 - 298 Seiten
........ 249 INDEX ....... 267 PART I SOME ASPECTS OF REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY CHAPTER I ANCIENT LIGHTS Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...amendment. I knew that age well ; I belonged to it, and laboured with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present but without the experience...
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The Johns Hopkins Studies in Romance Literatures and Languages ..., Bände 2-3

1926 - 548 Seiten
...stature ». Notes on Virginia, Query XVI f, I, 223. Thirty years later he wrote to Samuel Kercheval : « Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think...
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The Citadel of Freedom: A Brief Study of the Constitution and Its Builders ...

Randolph Leigh - 1923 - 342 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...
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Pensées choisies de Montesquieu tirées du "Commonplace book" de Thomas ...

Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1925 - 87 Seiten
...s'étaient écoulées depuis la Déclaration d'Indépendance, il écrivait à Samuel Kercheval : « Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred lo be loucbcd. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and unlried changes in laws and constitutions....
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History and Social Intelligence

Harry Elmer Barnes - 1926 - 638 Seiten
...framing or ratification, is admirably illustrated by the following opinion of Thomas Jefferson: 27 Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose that what they did was beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it and labored with it;...
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Urbanization: Its Effects on Government and Society

John Giffin Thompson - 1927 - 710 Seiten
...with which some men look at constitutions. "They ascribe to the men of the preceding age," he says, "a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment I know that age well ; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was...
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American Government: With a Consideration of the Problems of Democracy

Frank Abbott Magruder - 1928 - 610 Seiten
...not be changed, but Thomas Jefferson expresses the contrary view in ths 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...
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The Summons: A Journal about Law, Lawyers and Law Books, Band 1,Ausgabe 1

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...
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