 | Kathy Laster - Law - 2001 - 436 pages
...which have recently been recalled both by the present Prime Minister and the present governor-general. Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. . . Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . We might as... | |
 | Herbert E. Sloan - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 396 pages
...was not one of them- "look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment." Nineteen years, he pointed out once again- how easily Jefferson must have composed these letters- was... | |
 | Jeffrey F. Meyer - Religion - 2001 - 382 pages
...anti-Federalist sentiment. Jefferson had written a letter to Samuel Kercheval in 1816, commenting, "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched." Although "not an advocate for frequent and untried... | |
 | Gregg David Crane - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 316 pages
...Arendt's On Revolution (1963) cites to similar effect Jefferson's intense opposition to "those who 'look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.1" Endorsing Jefferson's rejection of "the injustice that only [the framers'] generation should... | |
 | James L. Golden, Professor Emeritus James L Golden, Alan L. Golden - History - 2002 - 562 pages
...improvement of our society. He voiced this sentiment in a letter to Samuel Kercheval on July 12, 1816: 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... | |
 | James J. Horn, Jan Ellen Lewis, Peter S. Onuf - History - 2002 - 460 pages
...shrine, Jefferson ridiculed those who looked on constitutions with "sanctimonious reverence and deemed them like the Ark of the Covenant too sacred to be touched." He touted his party as following "the guidance of . . . theory."2o In countries "left free," the forms... | |
 | William Quigley - Business & Economics - 2008 - 254 pages
...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... | |
 | Hannah Arendt - Philosophy - 2003 - 644 pages
...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... | |
 | R. B. Bernstein - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 258 pages
...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... | |
 | Kevin M. Cahill, M.D. - Social Science - 2009 - 138 pages
...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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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. 
