...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...say themselves, were they to rise from the dead.” (Quoted in Douglas, “Stare Decisis” p. 31 (1949).) Permit me to quote one more statement which...

...what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well, I belonged to it and labored with it... It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present." Jefferson to Kercheval (12 July 1816), FORD, WRITINGS, vol. 12, 3. 32. Hamilton, 256-257. 3. CONSTITUTIONAL...

...human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well. ... It was very like the present; and forty years of experience in government...would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead. . . . Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes...

...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...experience of the present; and forty years of experience in 511 -22fovemment Is worth a century of book-reading; and this they would say themselves, were they...

...but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in -22jovemment Is worth • century of book-reading; and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead . . . . Let us . . . avail ourselves of our reason and experience. to comet the crude essays of our...

...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...years of experience in government is worth a century 74 See. eg. Brest, The Misconceived Quest for the Original Understanding. 60 BUL Rev. 204,216(1980)....

...whole work of the generation of founding fathers: I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...say themselves, were they to rise from the dead." Later, in 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville, the most astute foreign observer of the United States, rated...

...modern times." In a similar manner Jefferson, in the maturity of his long and active life, observed that "forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading. . . . laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes...

...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;...

...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. Justice Brennan, when he speaks of a "living constitution," means a document that is clay in the hands...