 | Fisher Ames - Democracy - 1835 - 222 pages
...system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown. In all the changes to which you he invited, remember that time and habit are at least...by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country ; that facility in changes, upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion,... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1835 - 698 pages
...impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown. In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that...governments, as of other human institutions ; that experiment is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of... | |
 | Fisher Ames - Democracy - 1835 - 242 pages
...the changes to which you be invited, remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to flx the true character of governments, as of other human...by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country ; that facility in changes, upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion,... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - United States - 1836 - 304 pages
...impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown. In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that...the true character of governments, as of other human institutions—that experience is the surest stajndard, by which to test the real tendency of the existing... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - United States - 1836 - 304 pages
...impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown. In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that...true character of govern-ments, as of other human institutions—that experience is the surest standard, by which to test the real tendency of the existing... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1837 - 620 pages
...impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown. In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that...by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country; that facility in changes, upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion,... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1837 - 246 pages
...impair the energy of the system; and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown. In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that...at least as necessary to fix the true character of government, as of other human institutions ; that experience is the surest standard, by which to test... | |
 | George Washington - 1838 - 114 pages
...impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown. In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that...by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country ; that facility in changes, upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion,... | |
 | L. Carroll Judson - 1839 - 364 pages
...impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown. In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember, that...by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country; that facility in change upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion,... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1840 - 394 pages
...impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown. In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that...by which to test the real tendency of the existing Constitution of a country ; that facility in changes, upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion,... | |
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In all the changes to which you may be invited remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of Governments as of other human institutions; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of... 
