 | National Republican club inc - 1927 - 408 pages
...not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all men were then actually enjoying that equality, nor that they were about to confer it immediately upon...to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it should follow as fast as circumstances would permit. They meant to set up a standard maxim for free... | |
 | English literature - 1918 - 458 pages
...the Interior, April, 3oth, 1793. In Schmidt, ' Tableaux de la Re"volution Francaise,' ip 161. it, ' meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement ' of it might follow as fast as circumstances would permit.' In the case of the United States there was, to begin with, no such clean sweep of traditional... | |
 | Glen E. Thurow - Political Science - 1976 - 146 pages
...pursuit of happiness."23 This did not mean that the Founders thereupon secured these rights for all men. "They meant simply to declare the right, so that the...follow as fast as circumstances should permit." They did this not for the sake of effecting a separation from Great Britain, for which "it was of no practical... | |
 | Michael Bertram Crowe - Law - 1977 - 340 pages
...are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.' This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then...of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.68 A very different point of view was taken by Jeremy Bentham for whom natural rights were,... | |
 | Robert A. Ferguson - Law - 1984 - 456 pages
...and the pursuit of happiness' "—the Founders did not "confer" these elements as matters of fact. "They meant simply to declare the right, so that the...might follow as fast as circumstances should permit" (H, 406). Lincoln the ideologue never forgets the power of circumstance, and his language, at its best,... | |
 | John P. Diggins - History - 1986 - 430 pages
...they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all men were actually enjoying that equality, nor yet, that they...boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. They meant to set up a standard... | |
 | John P. Diggins - History - 1986 - 430 pages
...meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all men were actually enjoying that 316 equality, nor yet, that they were about to confer...boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. They meant to set up a standard... | |
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This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon.... 
