 | David Halliburton - 1997 - 428 pagina’s
...a more explicitly discursive ground: "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" (J 959). Possession is scaled to the length of a generation: "Then no man can by natural right oblige... | |
 | Gregory S. Alexander - 2008 - 496 pagina’s
..."fundamental" question, Jefferson continued, "I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, 'that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living':...the dead have neither powers nor rights over it." This letter is a central text in the Jeffersonian canon; it represents, as Herbert Sloan has observed,... | |
 | William G. Shade - 1998 - 314 pagina’s
...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, 't/iat the earth belongs in usufruct to the living: that the dead have neither powers... | |
 | Todd Breyfogle - 1999 - 420 pagina’s
...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 the usufruct to the living": that the dead have neither powers... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 676 pagina’s
...of society has presented this question to my mind; and that no such obligation can be 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"; that the dead have neither powers... | |
 | Todd Breyfogle - 1999 - 420 pagina’s
...proof. — I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident: "that the earth belongs in the usufruct to the living": that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it. On similar grounds 1t may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - 2000 - 466 pagina’s
...transmitted 1 think very capable of proof. 1 set out on this ground which 1 suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living;"...powers nor rights over it. The portion occupied by an individual ceases to be his when himself ceases to be, and reverts to the society. Letter to James... | |
 | E. M. Halliday - 2009 - 306 pagina’s
...realize the tremendous importance of a principle that, though "self-evident," had been much neglected: "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living;...the dead have neither powers nor rights over it." It was possibly a bit unfortunate, with regard to clarity, that a key word in the statement is rare... | |
 | Paul Finkelman - 316 pagina’s
...came close to articulating, at the political level, Thomas Jefferson's radical notions of inheritance, "'that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living':...the dead have neither powers nor rights over it." Jefferson believed that this theory of inheritance should apply to all laws, because the "earth belongs... | |
 | Herbert E. Sloan - 2001 - 396 pagina’s
...forty-six-year-old Thomas Jefferson wrote the most famous of his thousands of letters, telling James Madison "'that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living;...that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it."2 Apart from the opening of the Declaration of Independence, none of Jefferson's words are better... | |
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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. 
