 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 552 páginas
...preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well : I belonged to it, and labored with it....would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 550 páginas
...wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well : 1 belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well...would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. 1 think... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 páginas
...suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well : I belonged to it, and laboured with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and notried changes in laws and constitutions. I think... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 662 páginas
...suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well : I belonged to it, and laboured with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 568 páginas
...a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well: 1 belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well...they would say themselves. were they to rise from ihedead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions.... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 982 páginas
...human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendments I knew that age well: I belonged to it, nnd labored with it. It deserved well of its country.-...would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 442 páginas
...experience of the present ; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book reading : and this they would say themselves were they to rise from the dead. We had not yet penetrated to the mother principle, that 'governments are republican only in proportion... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 820 páginas
...without perience of the present; and forty years of ex3e in government is worth a century of book readnd this they would say themselves were they to rise from the dead. We had not yet penetrated to the mother principle, that ' governments are republican only in proportion... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 608 páginas
...suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well. 1 belonged to it, and laboured with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...of experience in government is worth a century of book reading ; this they would say of themselves, were they to rise from the dead. I am certainly not... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1838 - 696 páginas
...what they did, to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well: I belonged to it, and labored with ii. It deserved well of its country. It was very like...of experience in government, is worth a century of book-leading: and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead. I am certainly not... | |
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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.... 
