| 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... | |
| Kevin M. Cahill, M.D. - 2009 - 138 Seiten
...Jefferson believed that "Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man." He noted, "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.... | |
| Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogota). Congreso Internacional - 2005 - 604 Seiten
...una generación no es tan capaz como la otra de velar por sí misma y ordenar sus propios asuntos". "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark ofthe covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men ofthe preceding age a wisdom more... | |
| Cass R. Sunstein - 2005 - 316 Seiten
...for a constitutional amendment before those particular values can be cast aside. — Antonin Scalia' 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... | |
| Stanley Kimmel Kesselman - 2006 - 219 Seiten
...housecleaning every twenty years because "institutions must advance and keep pace with the times." Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of a preceding age a wisdom more than human . . . But I know also that... as new discoveries are made,... | |
| Michael G. Kammen - 1986 - 530 Seiten
...Thomas Jefferson, still the symbolic leader of the Democratic Republicans, remarked disparagingly that "some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched." 12 In 1823-24, when pro-slavery advocates in South Carolina felt that an opinion rendered by the US... | |
| Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas - 2007 - 220 Seiten
...serious to require radical amendment. 3 "Some men look at constitutions," wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1816, "with sanctimonious reverence and deem them, like...the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched." 4 I believe that Madison's hope (or Jefferson's implicit fear) is being ever more realized, for Americans... | |
| Sanford Levinson - 2006 - 260 Seiten
...ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 223 INDEX 227 This page intentionally left blank PRELUDE THE WISDOM OF THOMAS JEFFERSON Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc [sic] of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a... | |
| Cass R. Sunstein - 2009 - 314 Seiten
...for a constitutional amendment before those particular values can be cast aside. — Antonin Scalia' 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... | |
| Susan Dunn - 2007 - 322 Seiten
...takeovers and boisterous rallies. He believed in calm, reflective, and periodic constitutional change. "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched," Jefferson wrote to his friend Samuel Kercheval in 1816. "They ascribe to the men of the preceding age... | |
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