 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1915 - 486 頁
...constitutions ought to respond to social needs and aspirations. "Some men," says Thomas Jefferson, "look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. But I know that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As... | |
 | Frank Abbott Magruder - 1921 - 504 頁
...not be changed, but Thomas Jefferson expresses the contrary view in the following words : " Some men ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more...what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age [of the Revolution] well. I belonged to it and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It... | |
 | Herman Finer - 1923 - 298 頁
........ 249 INDEX ....... 267 PART I SOME ASPECTS OF REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY CHAPTER I ANCIENT LIGHTS Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...amendment. I knew that age well ; I belonged to it, and laboured with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present but without the experience... | |
 | 1926 - 548 頁
...stature ». Notes on Virginia, Query XVI f, I, 223. Thirty years later he wrote to Samuel Kercheval : « Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think... | |
 | Randolph Leigh - 1923 - 342 頁
...into conflict with his cousin. Jefferson wrote thus of blind worship of established institutions : "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they Marshall and Jefferson 81 did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it and labored... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1925 - 87 頁
...s'étaient écoulées depuis la Déclaration d'Indépendance, il écrivait à Samuel Kercheval : « Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred lo be loucbcd. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and unlried changes in laws and constitutions.... | |
 | Harry Elmer Barnes - 1926 - 638 頁
...framing or ratification, is admirably illustrated by the following opinion of Thomas Jefferson: 27 Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose that what they did was beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it and labored with it;... | |
 | John Giffin Thompson - 1927 - 710 頁
...with which some men look at constitutions. "They ascribe to the men of the preceding age," he says, "a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment I know that age well ; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was... | |
 | Frank Abbott Magruder - 1928 - 610 頁
...not be changed, but Thomas Jefferson expresses the contrary view in ths following words: "Some men ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more...what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age [of the Revolution] well. I belonged to it and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It... | |
 | Raymond Garfield Gettell - 1928 - 652 頁
...duty of election." Jefferson did not share in the growing worship of the Constitution. He did not ' ' look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence...them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be "Compare Condorcet's doctrine that no generation can bind its successor, *ad Paine 's belief in the... | |
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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. 
