| Robert N. Bellah - 1992 - 223 頁
...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... | |
| Robert N. Bellah - 1992 - 223 頁
...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... | |
| Lance Banning - 1995 - 264 頁
...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... | |
| Stephen Holmes - 1995 - 360 頁
...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... | |
| William Quirk, R. Randall Bridwell - 1995 - 162 頁
...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... | |
| Seyla Benhabib - 1996 - 388 頁
...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... | |
| Jon Elster, Rune Slagstad - 1988 - 372 頁
...concrete aims than if a hotly contested amendment campaign were waged and won. According to Jefferson, "(s]ome men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched."81 Madison was not one of these men. He did not wish... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1998 - 76 頁
...interest and passion' of popular majorities and provide a rallying point against a usurping government. -k Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; 1 belonged to it, and labored with it — But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand... | |
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