 | United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison - Constitutional history - 2003 - 808 pages
...The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstances, as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw...rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved. And on the present occasion this difficulty was increased by a difference among the... | |
 | Robert A. McGuire - Business & Economics - 2003 - 416 pages
...The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstances as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw...rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved; and on the present occasion this difficulty was increased by a difference among the... | |
 | Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - Political Science - 2003 - 304 pages
...wrote, "Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. ... It is at all times difficult to draw with precision...rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved."63 If too much liberty is ceded, the end of government, which is to protect liberty,... | |
 | Daniel L. Dreisbach, Mark David Hall, Jeffry H. Morrison - History - 2004 - 340 pages
...The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstance, as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw...rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved. —George Washington, letter submitting the proposed constitution to the president... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - Civil rights - 2004 - 762 pages
...The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstances, as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw...rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved. And on the present occasion this difficulty was increased by a difference among the... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 476 pages
...Congress, written as president of the convention which formed this compact, thus speaks on this subject : "It is at all times difficult to draw, with precision,...rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved; and on the present occasion this difficulty was increased by a difference among the... | |
 | Michael W. Shurgot - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 800 pages
...magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on the situation and circumstance, as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw...rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved; and on the present occasion this difficulty was encreased by a difference among the... | |
 | Edward A. Purcell - Political Science - 2007 - 311 pages
...formally acknowledged as much in its letter transmitting the Constitution to the Confederation Congress. "It is at all times difficult to draw with precision...line between those rights which must be surrendered [by the states], and those which may be reserved," it explained. Indeed, it highlighted the problem... | |
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