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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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The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial

Robert N. Bellah - 1992 - 223 Seiten
...felt it would be a good thing to have a revolution every 20 years.45 He was contemptuous of those who "look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched."46 The evangelicals, in the revival of 1800 that was intimately connected with the electoral...
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Jefferson and Madison: Three Conversations from the Founding

Lance Banning - 1995 - 264 Seiten
...the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is pubic debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness...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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Passions and Constraint: On the Theory of Liberal Democracy

Stephen Holmes - 1995 - 360 Seiten
...concrete aims than if hotly contested amendment campaigns were waged and even won. According to Jefferson, "some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched."82 Madison was not one of these men. He did not wish to insulate the ground rules from all...
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Judicial Dictatorship

William Quirk, R. Randall Bridwell - 1995 - 143 Seiten
...Constitution was not an object of worship, "like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched": 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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Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political

Seyla Benhabib - 1996 - 388 Seiten
...revolutionary ardor. He warned against looking "at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem[ing] them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched,"" and he is known famously for his insistence that "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...
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Reauthorization of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation - 1997 - 538 Seiten
...pretty much as it is and extend it for several more years? Mr. Chairman, Thomas Jefferson once wrote, "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment." I think those are fitting words as we begin the consideration of the post-ISTEA era. I, for one, do not...
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Constitutionalism and Democracy

Jon Elster, Rune Slagstad - 1988 - 372 Seiten
...concrete aims than if a hotly contested amendment campaign were waged and won. According to Jefferson, "(s]ome men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched."81 Madison was not one of these men. He did not wish...
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Thomas Jefferson: His Words and Vision

Thomas Jefferson - 1998 - 76 Seiten
...interest and passion' of popular majorities and provide a rallying point against a usurping government. -k Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; 1 belonged to it, and labored with it — But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand...
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Impeachment Or Indictment: Is a Sitting President Subject to the ..., Band 4

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution, Federalism, and Property Rights - 1999 - 248 Seiten
...ed. 1905) ("Some men look at constitutions with a sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe...amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it... .It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience...
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Jefferson: Political Writings

Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 676 Seiten
...this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows...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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