 Yet it is a question of such consequences as not only to merit decision, but place also, among the fundamental principles of every government. The course of reflection in which we are immersed here on the elementary principles of society...  The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence - Sida 103efter Thomas Jefferson - 1859Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 sidor
...as not only to merit decision, but place also among the fundamental principles of every government. The course of reflection in which we are immersed...question to my mind; and that no such obligation can be so transmitted, I think very capable of proof. I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 554 sidor
...as not only to merit decision, but place also among the fundamental principles of every government. The course of reflection in which we are immersed...question to my mind ; and that no such obligation can be so transmitted, T think very capable of proof. I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 656 sidor
...as not only to merit decision, but place also among the fundamental principles of every government. The course of reflection in which we are immersed...question to my mind ; and that no such obligation can be so transmitted, I think very capable of proof. 1 set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 582 sidor
...as not only to merit decision, but place also among the fundamental principles of every government. The course of reflection in which we are immersed here, on the elementary principles of society, has presettted this question to my mind ; and that no such obligation can be so transmitted, I think very... | |
 | 1840 - 532 sidor
...had convinced him, that one generation of men has no power to bind another. " I set out," he says, " on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the Jiving ; that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it. The portion occupied by any individual... | |
 | George Lewis Prentiss - 1855 - 598 sidor
...as not only to merit decision, but place also among the fundamental principles of every government. The course of reflection in which we are immersed...question to my mind ; and that no such obligation can be so transmitted, I think very capable of proof. I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident,... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1857 - 408 sidor
...not only to merit discussion, but place also among the fundamental principles of every government. The course of reflection in which we are immersed...can be transmitted, I think very capable of proof." Mr. Jefferson arrives at this conclusion: "That neither the representatives of a nation, nor the whole... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 916 sidor
...as not only to merit decision, but place also among tho fundamental principles of every government. The course of reflection in which we are immersed...question to my mind ; and that no such obligation can be so transmitted, I think very capable of proof. I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident,... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 764 sidor
...place also among the fundamental principles of every government. The course of reflection in which wo are immersed here, on the elementary principles of...question to my mind ; and that no such obligation can be so transmitted, I think very capable of proof. I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident,... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 758 sidor
...principles of society, has presented this question to my mind; and that no such obligation can be so transmitted, I think very capable of proof. I set...which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belong* in vxufruct to the living; that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it. The portion... | |
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