 | Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Christopher M. Andrew - 1997 - 262 páginas
...everywhere the parent of despotism', he warned. 'In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.' 2 The preeminent link in these chains was the First Article, which enumerated the powers of Congress... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1998 - 76 páginas
...confidence which prescribes limited constitutions ... In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. [Kentucky Resolutions, 1798] -k The Legislative, Executive and Judiciary offices shall be kept for... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight - 1998 - 346 páginas
...independent of government bureaucrats Thomas Jefferson wrote, "In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." He also said, "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and for government to gain ground."... | |
 | Merrill D. Peterson - 1998 - 572 páginas
...Jeffersonian missiles at the Roosevelt administration: In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. When we must wait for Washington to tell us when to sow and when to reap, we shall soon want bread.... | |
 | Larry Alexander - 2001 - 336 páginas
...dictum of Jefferson's best expresses this attitude: "In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."127 Even when acknowledging the inevitable need for some human intermediary between the... | |
 | Peter McNamara - 1999 - 278 páginas
...those whom we are obliged to trust with power. ... In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. The contrast between "jealousy" and "confidence" reveals the essential difference between a Whig and... | |
 | Phillip G. Henderson - 2000 - 324 páginas
..."fixed the limits" of political power, he concluded, "In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."1 As I have argued in my study of Jefferson's constitutional thought, this statement... | |
 | Derek H. Davis - 2000 - 328 páginas
...Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, Jefferson declared, "In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."94 An exchange between two long-retired presidents is instructive. In December 1819 Jefferson... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - 2004 - 574 páginas
...government is founded in jealousy and not in confidence. ... In questions of power then let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.116 One can hardly imagine a greatet distance than the one separating this from Paul and... | |
 | Stephen G. Post, Lynn G. Underwood, Jeffrey P. Schloss, William B. Hurlbut - 2002 - 532 páginas
...Paris when the monograph appeared — had a dark view. "In questions of power," he would later write, "let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind...from mischief by the chains of the constitution." Paine similarly saw the purpose of constitutions as "to restrain and regulate the wild impulse of power"... | |
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In questions of power, then, let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. 
