 | Dennis C. Mueller Professor of Economics University of Vienna - Political Science - 1996 - 398 pages
...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with;... | |
 | Anders Breidlid - Art - 1996 - 428 pages
...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...of experience in government is worth a century of book reading. And this they would say themselves were they to rise from the dead. I am certainly not... | |
 | Alfred H. Knight - Law - 1998 - 294 pages
...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...of experience in government is worth a century of book reading; and this they would say themselves were they to rise from the dead. The search for original... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - History - 1999 - 676 pages
...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with;... | |
 | Mark Tushnet - Law - 2000 - 255 pages
...the preceding age a wisdom more than human. ... I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead."17 James Madison, in short, was a smart guy, but he wasn't infallible.18 Conservation of Political... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 276 pages
...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead" (40). 14. TJ to Roane, 6 Sept. 1819, ibid., 212-16, at 212. 15. The historical literature on the "revolution... | |
 | Edward J. Dodson - Social Science - 2002 - 600 pages
...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with;... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 376 pages
...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with;... | |
 | James L. Golden, Professor Emeritus James L Golden, Alan L. Golden - History - 2002 - 562 pages
...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...present, but without the experience of the present. . . . Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes... | |
| |
... 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.... 
