The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been started either on this or our side of the water. Yet it is a question of such consequences as not only to merit decision, but place also, among the fundamental... A Memoir of S.S. Prentiss - Página 240por George Lewis Prentiss - 1855Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Dominic Maxwell, Anthony Vigor - 2005 - 76 páginas
...eloquent was Thomas Jefferson. In a letter to James Madison, written from Paris in 1789, Jefferson wrote: The question Whether one generation of men has a right...started either on this or our side of the water.... I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to... | |
| Mitchell Meltzer - 2005 - 216 páginas
...general dispatches," he had not yet time to address. Now he begins at once with the crux of his concern: The question whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been stated either on this or our side of the water. Yet it is a question of such consequences as not only... | |
| Brian Weiner - 2009 - 258 páginas
...letter to James Madison written from Paris in the midst of the French Revolution, Jefferson wrote, "The question, whether one generation of men has a right to bind another ... is a question of such consequences as not only to merit decision, but place also among the fundamental... | |
| Robert W. McGee, Galina G. Preobragenskaya - 2005 - 368 páginas
...Nearly a quarter of a century earlier (1789), writing to James Madison from Paris, Jefferson said: "The question Whether one generation of men has a...our side of the water. Yet it is a question of such consequences as not only to merit decision, but place also, among the fundamental principles of every... | |
| 1895 - 658 páginas
...existence of the organic law of the State. The following are extracts from this remarkable epistle: The question whether one generation of men has a right...consequence as not only to merit decision but place among the fundamental principles of every government. The course of reflection in which we are immersed... | |
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