 | Frank Abbott Magruder - 1928 - 610 páginas
...Thomas Jefferson expresses the contrary view in ths following words: "Some men ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose...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... | |
 | 1920 - 782 páginas
...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...labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present but without the experience of the present ... I am certainly not an advocate... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1938 - 268 páginas
...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...labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and 40 years of experience... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1938 - 100 páginas
...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...labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and 40 years of experience... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1938 - 130 páginas
...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...labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and 40 years of experience... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1944 - 922 páginas
...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...labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1974 - 268 páginas
...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. ... Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1978 - 1290 páginas
...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. I knew this age well ; I belonged to it, and labored 'with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very... | |
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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. 
