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" This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon.... "
Lives and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin - Página 181
por William Dean Howells - 1860 - 390 páginas
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First Things: An Inquiry Into the First Principles of Morals and Justice

Hadley Arkes - 1986 - 448 páginas
...are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, or yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact they had no power to confer...
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Building the Myth: Selected Speeches Memorializing Abraham Lincoln

Waldo Warder Braden - 1990 - 278 páginas
...happiness. This they said and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all men were then actually enjoying that equality, nor [yet]...to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it should follow as fast as circumstances would permit. They meant to set up a standard maxim for free...
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Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate

David Zarefsky - 1993 - 324 páginas
...last encounter, at Alton, where Lincoln read from his earlier speech. The Founders, he noted, "did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all were...they were about to confer it immediately upon them. . . . They meant simply to declare the right so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as...
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Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate

David Zarefsky - 1993 - 324 páginas
...actually enjoying that equality, nor yet, that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. . . . They meant simply to declare the right so that the...of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit."53 The phrase was not a description of empirical conditions but a standard to which to aspire...
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Constitutionalism and Rights: The Influence of the United States ...

Louis Henkin, Albert J. Rosenthal - 1990 - 484 páginas
...a factual situation, because the authors of the United States Declaration of Independence "did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality."21 It was the enunciation of a high moral principle: every person, irrespective of his/her...
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The American Polity: Essays on the Theory and Practice of Constitutional ...

Edward J. Erler - 1991 - 144 páginas
...June 1857 that the authors of the Declaration did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all men were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet....confer it immediately upon them. In fact they had no such power to confer such a boon. They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which should...
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Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America

Garry Wills - 1992 - 324 páginas
...1.400, italics added). They [the fathers] did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all men were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet...simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. [SW 1.398] Since Lincoln thinks of America's claim...
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Nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas to be Associate Justice of the Supreme ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1993 - 1162 páginas
...are conspicuously absent in his writings on the Constitution or otherwise. 101 [The Founders) did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all were...confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the 31 Judge Thomas's arguments with respect to racial equality are not transferable to equality between...
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Old Rights and New

Robert A. Licht - 1993 - 244 páginas
...are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This they said and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all were...confer it immediately upon them. In fact they had no right to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it...
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Troublesome Presence: Democracy and Black Americans

Eli Ginzberg, Alfred S. Eichner - 1993 - 380 páginas
...men were equal in color, size, intellect, moral development or social capacity. . . . They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all were then actually enjoying that equality, not yet, that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact they had no power to confer...
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