 | John Hart Ely - Law - 1980 - 286 pages
...whom we have as little authority as we have over a nation in Asia."3 And Jefferson wrote to Madison " 'that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living';...the dead have neither powers nor rights over it." His suggestion was that the Constitution expire naturally every nineteen years.4 Madison and others... | |
 | Mircea Eliade - Philosophy - 1984 - 193 pages
...1955), p. 14. As early as 1789, in a letter written from Paris, Thomas Jefferson solemnly asserted that "the earth belongs in usufruct to the living, that the dead have neither power nor rights over it" (ibid., p. 16). begins the world again," he writes, unaware, perhaps, of... | |
 | Paul Buhle, Alan Dawley - Business & Economics - 1985 - 172 pages
...the Rich a predominance in Government"? When Thomas Jefferson insisted that "the earth belongs ... to the living, that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it," and that therefore no generation had the right to legislate for the next, many were prepared to take... | |
 | Bob Pepperman Taylor - Political Science - 1992 - 208 pages
...language here suggests that he has in mind Jefferson's famous letter to Madison (6 September 1798): "I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident,...that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it" (Thomas Jefferson, The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Adrienne Koch and William... | |
 | George F. Will - History - 2010 - 284 pages
...not only to merit decision, but place also among the fundamental principles of every government. ... I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident,...that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it. ... Then, no man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied, or the persons who succeed him... | |
 | Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...on this or our side of the water. ... I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living:"...that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it. THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to James Madison, September 6, 1789.— The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, James Madison - 1995 - 730 pages
...society has presented this question to my mind; and that no such obligation can be so transmitted I think very capable of proof. I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, 'that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living': 36 that the dead have neither powers... | |
 | William Quirk, R. Randall Bridwell - Law - 1995 - 162 pages
...he had written to Madison that he thought it selfevident that the earth belongs in usufruct [trust] to the living, that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it .... No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always... | |
 | A. Robert Lee, W. M. Verhoeven - American literature - 1996 - 376 pages
...that are to be accommodated" (CW, 251), much like Jefferson's claim to James Madison two years earlier that "the earth belongs in usufruct to the living: that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it"39 erases both the past and the future and creates a revolutionary sense of immediacy that resists... | |
 | James W. Ely - Eminent domain - 1997 - 438 pages
...intergenerational transmission of wealth. ln this letter he proposed to Madison the "self evident" proposition " 'that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living'...dead have neither powers nor rights over it." The critical passage is worth quoting in full: The portion occupied by an individual ceases to be his when... | |
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I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living : that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it. 
