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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.... "
Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J ... - Página 298
por Thomas Jefferson - 1829
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Ending Poverty As We Know It: Guaranteeing A Right To A Job

William Quigley - 2008 - 254 páginas
...much, much better. VA CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO A JOB AT A LIVING WAGE 10 A Constitutional Amendment Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose that what they did to be beyond amendment. ... I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried...
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The Portable Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt - 2003 - 644 páginas
...occasional, and sometimes violent, antagonism against the Constitution and particularly against those who 'look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched'2 was motivated by a feeling of outrage about the injustice that only his generation should...
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Thomas Jefferson: The Revolution of Ideas

R. B. Bernstein - 2004 - 258 páginas
...that his fellow citizens felt for the early leaders of the Revolution and their political handiwork: Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom...
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Secular Revelations: The Constitution of the United States and Classic ...

Mitchell Meltzer - 2005 - 216 páginas
...nevertheless responded to Kercheval with an uncompromising reiteration of his views: Some men look to constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem...amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience...
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To Bear Witness: Updated, Revised, and Expanded Edition

Kevin M. Cahill, M.D. - 2009 - 138 páginas
...Jefferson believed that "Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man." He noted, "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment....
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Congreso Internacional Reforma de la constitución y control de ...

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogota). Congreso Internacional - 2005 - 604 páginas
...una generación no es tan capaz como la otra de velar por sí misma y ordenar sus propios asuntos". "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark ofthe covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men ofthe preceding age a wisdom more...
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Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-wing Courts are Wrong for America

Cass R. Sunstein - 2005 - 316 páginas
...for a constitutional amendment before those particular values can be cast aside. — Antonin Scalia' Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom...
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Citizen Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson - 2005 - 148 páginas
...and Smyth, Washington, March 27, 1801 Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence; & deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred...amendment. I knew that age well: I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience...
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Divine Intervention: Jesus Or Jefferson?

Stanley Kimmel Kesselman - 2006 - 219 páginas
...housecleaning every twenty years because "institutions must advance and keep pace with the times." Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of a preceding age a wisdom more than human . . . But I know also that... as new discoveries are made,...
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Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture

Michael G. Kammen - 582 páginas
...Thomas Jefferson, still the symbolic leader of the Democratic Republicans, remarked disparagingly that "some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched." 12 In 1823-24, when pro-slavery advocates in South Carolina felt that an opinion rendered by the US...
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