 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pagina’s
...collectively, since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of individuals. Then no generation can. contract debts greater than...may be paid during the course of its own existence. * * * Nineteen years is the term beyond which neither the representatives of a nation nor even the... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1900 - 494 pagina’s
...collectively, since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of individuals. Then no generation can. contract debts greater than...may be paid during the course of its own existence. * * * Nineteen years is the term beyond which neither the representatives of a nation nor even the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1903 - 546 pagina’s
...receives it clear of the debts and inc* ^orahces of the first, the third of the second, and soron. For if the first could charge it with a debt, then...thirty-three; at twenty-three, for thirty-two; and at fifty -four, for one year only; because these are the terms of life which remain to them at the respective... | |
 | Stephen Mallory White - 1903 - 400 pagina’s
...incumbrances of the first, the third of the second, and so on. For if the first could charge it with debt, then the earth would belong to the dead and...may be paid during the course of its own existence. — Letter written from Paris to lames Madison. September 6, 1789. volume 3, page 103. Not those who... | |
 | Stephen Mallory White - 1903 - 387 pagina’s
...incumbrances of the first, the third of the second, and so on. For if the first could charge it with debt, then the earth would belong to the dead and...greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence.—Letter written from Paris to James Madison, September 6, 1789, volume 3, page 103. Not... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1904 - 538 pagina’s
...so on. For if the 1st. could charge it with a debt, then the earth would belong to the dead and not the living generation. Then no generation can contract...debts greater than may be paid during the course of it's own existence. At 21. years of age they may bind themselves and their lands for 34. years to come:... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1905 - 1022 pagina’s
...and children, or to some one of them, or to the legatee of the deceased. So they may give it to its creditor. But the child, the legatee or creditor,...thirty-three; at twenty-three, for thirty-two; and at fifty -four, for one year only; because these are the terms of life which remain to them at the respective... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations - 1994 - 446 pagina’s
...celebrated "The Earth Belongs to the Living" letter to James Madison. And in that letter he argued that, "No generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence," which Jefferson, by the way, calculated to be a period of about 19 years. James Madison, though, is... | |
 | Lance Banning - 1995 - 264 pagina’s
...& so on. For if the ist could charge it with a debt, then the earth would belong to the dead & not the living generation. Then no generation can contract...debts greater than may be paid during the course of it's own existence. At 2 1. years of age they may bind themselves & their lands for 34. years to come:... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, James Madison - 1995 - 730 pagina’s
...so on. For if the 1st. could charge it with a debt, then the earth would belong to the dead and not the living generation. Then no generation can contract...debts greater than may be paid during the course of it's own existence. At 21. years of age they may bind themselves and their lands for 34. years to come:... | |
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Then I say, the earth belongs to each of these generations during its course, fully and in its own right. The second generation receives it clear of the debts and incumbrances of the first, the third of the second, and so on. For if the first could charge... 
