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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 Year of the Hare: America in Vietnam, January 25, 1963-February 15, 1964

Francis X. Winters - 1999 - 314 Seiten
...occasional, and sometimes violent, antagonism against the Constitution and particularly against those who "look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence...the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched," was motivated by a feeling of outrage about the injustice that only his generation should have it in...
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Taking the Constitution Away from the Courts

Mark Tushnet - 2000 - 255 Seiten
...similar point in an 1816 letter, "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence. . . . They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human. ... I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It...
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Law as Culture

Kathy Laster - 2001 - 436 Seiten
...which have recently been recalled both by the present Prime Minister and the present governor-general. Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. . . Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . We might as...
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Principle and Interest: Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Debt

Herbert E. Sloan - 2001 - 396 Seiten
...was not one of them- "look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment." Nineteen years, he pointed out once again- how easily Jefferson must have composed these letters- was...
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Myths in Stone: Religious Dimensions of Washington, D.C., Teil 3

Jeffrey F. Meyer - 2001 - 382 Seiten
...anti-Federalist sentiment. Jefferson had written a letter to Samuel Kercheval in 1816, commenting, "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched." Although "not an advocate for frequent and untried...
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Race, Citizenship, and Law in American Literature

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...
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Thomas Jefferson and the Rhetoric of Virtue

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...
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The Revolution of 1800: Democracy, Race, and the New Republic

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...
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Ending Poverty As We Know It: Guaranteeing A Right To A Job

William Quigley - 2008 - 240 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...
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The Portable Hannah Arendt

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...
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