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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.... "
Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J ... - Pagina 298
door Thomas Jefferson - 1829
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Collected Writings on Education and Drama

Dorothy Heathcote - 1991 - 219 pagina’s
...itself. Like the generation of the revolutionary dead we have a destiny to create. Thomas Jefferson said: Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of a preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what 198 they did to be beyond amendment ......
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The Hamilton-Madison-Jefferson Triangle

Morton J. Frisch - 1992 - 50 pagina’s
...most precise formulation on the imperfection of constitutions as constitutions was his statement that "some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment . . . But I know . . . that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human...
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The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial

Robert N. Bellah - 1992 - 223 pagina’s
...felt it would be a good thing to have a revolution every 20 years. 45 He was contemptuous of those who "look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched." 46 The evangelicals, in the revival of 1800 that was intimately connected with the electoral victory...
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The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial

Robert N. Bellah - 1992 - 223 pagina’s
...felt it would be a good thing to have a revolution every 20 years.45 He was contemptuous of those who "look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched."46 The evangelicals, in the revival of 1800 that was intimately connected with the electoral...
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Jefferson and Madison: Three Conversations from the Founding

Lance Banning - 1995 - 264 pagina’s
...the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is pubic debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness...with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom...
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Passions and Constraint: On the Theory of Liberal Democracy

Stephen Holmes - 1995 - 360 pagina’s
...concrete aims than if hotly contested amendment campaigns were waged and even won. According to Jefferson, "some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched."82 Madison was not one of these men. He did not wish to insulate the ground rules from all...
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Judicial Dictatorship

William Quirk, R. Randall Bridwell - 1995 - 143 pagina’s
...Constitution was not an object of worship, "like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched": Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom...
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American Culture: An Anthology of Civilization Texts

Anders Breidlid - 1996 - 432 pagina’s
...perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. . . . 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...
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Constitutional Democracy

Dennis C. Mueller - 1996 - 395 pagina’s
...so I want to close with a particular note of gratitude to her for all of her help over these years. 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...
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Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political

Seyla Benhabib - 1996 - 388 pagina’s
...revolutionary ardor. He warned against looking "at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem[ing] them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched,"" and he is known famously for his insistence that "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to...
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