 | Raymond Garfield Gettell - Political science - 1928 - 652 pages
...duty of election." Jefferson did not share in the growing worship of the Constitution. He did not ' ' look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence...them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be "Compare Condorcet's doctrine that no generation can bind its successor, *ad Paine 's belief in the... | |
 | Law - 1920 - 782 pages
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1938 - 130 pages
...educatorstatesman, Thomas Jefferson. In 1816, after founding both a nation and a university he wrote: "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1938 - 100 pages
...ending with a quotation from Thomas Jefferson's famous letter of 1816 on amending the Constitution: Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1938 - 268 pages
...educatorstatesman, Thomas Jefferson. In 1816, after founding both a nation and a university he wrote: "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience... | |
 | Martin Edelman - Law - 1984 - 416 pages
...beginning of this change was: "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and they deem them like the ark of the 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.... | |
 | Thomas R. Cole - Social Science - 1987 - 324 pages
...Jefferson, invoked during congressional debate over the 1983 Social Security amendments, are illuminating: Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well. ... It was very like the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Judges - 1989 - 1346 pages
...stronger central government. You will adopt Aristotle's stance on flexibility of laws, when you say: "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdoia more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Judges - 1989 - 1312 pages
...stronger central government. You will adopt Aristotle's stance on flexibility of laws, when you say: "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the A-4 3761 preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.... | |
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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.... 
