...rights as fundamental and absolute." Now contrast Halperin's vision of liberty with that of Jefferson's: "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...

...for Jefferson's own actions. Writing several years after the Purchase, Jefferson mused provocatively: 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, along...

...silence."*5 Or, as he put it in 1810, upon further reflection, "A strict observance of the written law is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen...of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation."36 Even if one agrees with Jefferson, it remains well worth asking how this justifies the...

...them in phalanx, we shall surmount them without danger. To William Duane, Monticello, Aug. 12, 1810 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...

...FORMS, THE DANGERS, THE CRITERIA, THE FUTURE. 288 INDEX 315 Introduction to the Transaction Edition 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...

...was to take advantage of a situation that might never present itself again. A "strict observance to the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties...self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of a higher obligation." Years afterward Jefferson agreed with Madison that the United States's acquisition...

...doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest" Rather, Jefferson claimed, the "laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving...country when in danger, are of higher obligation." For to "lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself,...

...the highest duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest" he wrote in a letter to JB Colvin. "The laws of necessity, of selfpreservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation."21 Hence, "a strict and rigid observation of the laws [in some cases] may do harm."22 Jefferson's...

...territory."3 He subsequently defended the exercise of such powers in language useful to Jackson's defense: 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...

...concession to necessity. This is certainly the approach of Thomas Jefferson's letter to }. B. Colvin: "A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless...of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation."17 Some version of the precept seems to lie behind Abraham Lincoln's suspension of provisions...