Let me add that a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. Seasoned Judgments - Seite xviivon Leonard W. LevyEingeschränkte Leseprobe - Über dieses Buch
| United States. Department of State. Bureau of Rolls and Library - 1905 - 846 Seiten
...preserved this palladium, those who had wandered should be brought back to it, and to have established let me add that a bill of rights is what the people...every government on earth, general or particular, & what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. general right instead of general wrong.... | |
| William Addison Blakely, Willard Allen Colcord - 1911 - 820 Seiten
...trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the laws of the nation. A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth." " Thomas Jefferson, His Life and Writings," by SE Forman (1900), page 169. In another letter, addressed... | |
| 1915 - 558 Seiten
...prohibition nugatory and void. 4 Jefferson's Works (Letter to James Madison, Dec. 20, 1787), 476 7: Let me add that a bill of rights is what the people...what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences. 5 Jefferson's Works (Letter to William Rutledge, Feb. 2, 1788), 4: I am glad to hear that... | |
| 1923 - 716 Seiten
...clearly shown by his published letters to James Madison. Under date of December 20, 1787, he says: "Let me add that a bill of rights is what the people...what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences."1' Under date of July 31, 1788, he says: "I sincerely rejoice at the acceptance of our... | |
| Religious Liberty Association (Washington, D.C.) - 1920 - 144 Seiten
...of sophisms, for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies. ... A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth." — " The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia," p. 88. When General Washington first became President, Mr. Madison... | |
| Maryland State Bar Association - 1921 - 286 Seiten
...entertained by his school for a limitation upon the powers of government : "Let me add that a bill or rights is what the people are entitled to against...government on earth, general or particular, and what no government should refuse or rest on inference." He considered that the inconveniences to be expected... | |
| Claude Gernade Bowers - 1925 - 596 Seiten
...William CarmichaeL compromise of the opposite claims of the great and little States'; but he insisted that a bill of rights 'is what the people are entitled...and what no just government should refuse or rest in inference.' Professing himself 'no friend to a very energetic government' as 'always oppressive,'... | |
| Claude Gernade Bowers - 1925 - 580 Seiten
...• Ibid., 368. compromise of the opposite claims of the great and little States'; but he insisted that a bill of rights 'is what the people are entitled...and what no just government should refuse or rest in inference.' Professing himself 'no friend to a very energetic government' as 'always oppressive,'... | |
| Charles Warren - 1925 - 328 Seiten
...to Congress all powers "without check, limitation or control." And Thomas Jefferson wrote to Madison that "a Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled...every government on earth, general or particular." l 1 Elliot's Debates, III, 317, 442, 446-449. 461, 593-594. Jefferson (Ford's Ed.), Jefferson to Madison,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1926 - 514 Seiten
...right to take away; and Congress will have a right to take away trials by jury in all civil cases. Let me add, that a bill of rights is what the people...what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. The second feature I dislike, and strongly dislike, is the abandonment, in every instance,... | |
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