 | Peter S. Onuf - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 500 pages
...to its stability. But Jefferson castigated "sanctimonious reverence" for constitutions and declared that "laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind." To this end he recommended provision in a new constitution proposed for Virginia in 1816 giving to... | |
 | United States. President (1993-2001 : Clinton) - Presidents - 1994 - 1026 pages
...nearly as big or cumbersome or bureaucratic or far-reaching as it is today. Thomas Jefferson said, laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of human mind as that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made and new truths... | |
 | Richard J. Hardy, Richard R. Dohm, David A. Leuthold - Political Science - 1995 - 440 pages
...PART State Governmental Framework CHAPTER The Constitution of Missouri by Roy Blunt and Larry Whatley Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. ... As new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, . . . institutions must advance also, and keep pace... | |
 | William Quirk, R. Randall Bridwell - Law - 1995 - 162 pages
...community changes, and, over time, the original agreement becomes a straight-jacket. Jefferson said: "Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy." The social contract,... | |
 | Steven Dietz - Drama - 1995 - 96 pages
...RAPER. "I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and constitutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind." EDDIE. I can read, Andy — RAPER. "With the change of circumstance, institutions must advance also... | |
 | Werner Peters - Political Science - 1996 - 320 pages
...paradoxical insight. Only by subjecting democracy to the unforgiving dynamic of time could it be saved. But I know also, that laws and institutions must go...hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances,... | |
 | Josiah Ober, Charles Hedrick - History - 1996 - 490 pages
...Jefferson as quoted in BR Barber's "Misreading Democracy" (this volume). Jefferson writes in a letter: "I know also that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. ... We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized... | |
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But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. 
