 | Edmund Burke - 1790 - 536 pagina’s
...fufficient that we adopt the word ; we muft fix alfo a ftandard fignification to it. A conftitution is not a thing in name only, but ' in fact. It has not an ideal, but a real exiftence ; and wherever it cannot be produced in a vilible form, there is none. A conflitution is... | |
 | John Horne Tooke, John Hill Blanchard - 1795 - 480 pagina’s
...of Man, being an anfwer to Mr. Burke-s attack on the Fre-nch Revolution. (Page 56.) " A conftitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact. It has not an ideal, but a real exiftence ; and wherever it cannot be produced in a vifible form, there is none. A conftitution is... | |
 | John Dickinson - 1801 - 450 pagina’s
...is therefore sacred. It is then an oflence against heaven, to violate that trust.* * A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact it has not an Ideal but a real existence, and wherever it cannot be produced in a visible form, there is none. A constitution is a thing antecedent... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 962 pagina’s
...president of the United States, appear to be entitled to attention : ' A constitution,' says Mr. Paine, ' is not a thing in name only but in fact. It has not an ideal, but a real existence ; and where. ever it cannot be produced in a visible form, there is none.' Mr. Paine should have gone farther,... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 474 pagina’s
...president of the United States, appear -to tie entitled to attention : ' A constitution,' says Mr. Paine, ' is not a thing in name only but in fact. It has not an ideal, but a real existence ; and whereerer it cannot be produced in a visible form, there is none.' Mr. Paine should have gone farther,... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1813 - 522 pagina’s
...wiU find this extremely important, because in the result <jf the whole evidence that I have to Jay before you, it will appear that they did not only...disavow making any application to Parliament, but the pom* petence of Parliament to do any thing by way of r^r forpi, because the country had as yet no constitution... | |
 | Virginia. General Court, William Brockenbrough, Hugh Holmes - 1815 - 364 pagina’s
...effect, as the act of the people, may not be improper. " A constitution," says the celebrated Paine, " is not a " thing in name only, but in fact. It has not an ideal, but " a real existence; and wherever it cannot be produced " in a visible form, there is none. A constitution is a " thing antecedent... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell - 1818 - 724 pagina’s
...book. In that book these doctrines, with respect to Great Britain, are laid down : " a constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact ; it has...the whole evidence that I have to lay before you, h will appear that they did not only distinctly disavow making any application to parliament, but the... | |
 | George Watterston - 1818 - 158 pagina’s
...existence to the free consent of the people. This is undeniable. . , t A constitution, according to Paine, is not a thing in name only, but in fact. It has not an ideal but a real existence ; and whenever it cannot be produced in a visible form there is none. A constitution is a thing antecedent... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1826 - 482 pagina’s
...sufficient that we adopt the word ; we must fix also a standard signification to it. A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact. It has not an ideal, but a real existence ; and wherever it cannot be produced in a visible form, there is none. A constitution is a thing antecedent... | |
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A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact. It has not an ideal, but a real existence ; and wherever it cannot be produced in a visible form, there is none. 
