 A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen : but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country...  Putnam's Monthly - Página 104Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 páginas
...v. Douai, May 1 950. 4 A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues and THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743-1826). US president. Leller, 20 Sept. 1810. 5 Our citizenship in the United... | |
 | Mark J. Rozell - 1994 - 222 páginas
...Jefferson, who had conducted secret negotiations over the purchase of the Louisiana territory, wrote that "a strict observance of the written laws is doubtless...self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of a higher obligation."56 Jefferson also said that "the transaction of business with foreign nations... | |
 | John Kleinig - 1996 - 350 páginas
...to assume authorities beyond the law," suggests that Jefferson's views were somewhat more complex: "A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless...when in danger, are of higher obligation. . . . The officer who is called to act upon this superior ground, does indeed risk himself on the justice of... | |
 | Gary L. McDowell, L. Sharon Noble, Sharon L. Noble - 1997 - 350 páginas
...question was "easy of solution in principle, but sometimes embarrassing in practice." As he put it, A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless...country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 páginas
...v Douds (May 1950). 2 A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The...country when in danger, are of higher obligation. THOMAS JEFFERSON, (1743-1826) US president. The Writings of Thomas lefferson, vol. 9, ed. Paul L. Ford... | |
 | Jean Edward Smith - 1998 - 788 páginas
...Jefferson wrote to JB Colvin that "a strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest duties of a good citizen: but it is not the highest....country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 676 páginas
...transaction of their business, it will soften the pillow of my repose through the residue of life. The question you propose, whether circumstances do...country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with... | |
 | David Brion Davis - 1999 - 577 páginas
...doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, or selfpreservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation." Quoted by Bernard Bailyn, "Jefferson and the Ambiguities of Freedom," Publications of the American... | |
 | Phillip G. Henderson - 2000 - 324 páginas
...of historians, political scientists, and other commentators have frequently cited out of context: . A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless...country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with... | |
 | Ray Wannall - 2000 - 262 páginas
...problem was not a new one, Martin quoted from a letter Thomas Jefferson sent to one JB Colvin in 1810: A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless...self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of a higher obligation... To lose our country by a strict adherence to the written law, would be to lose... | |
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