| Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert Martin Schaefer - Political Science - 2005 - 444 pages
...Constitution of 1 787. The prevailing ideas entertained by [Jefferson] and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution,...Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. Those ideas were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of the... | |
| Sean Wilentz - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 1114 pages
...of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution," Stephens remarked, "were that the enslavement of the African was in violation...Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away." But that cherished idea of Jefferson and the Founders was fundamentally mistaken: Our new government... | |
| Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - History - 2005 - 318 pages
...civilization. . . . The prevailing ideas entertained by [Jefferson] and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution,...in principle, socially, morally, and politically. . . . Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas, entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen, at the time of the formation of the old Constitution,...Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. Let us pause here, for a moment, to consider this distinct concession — truthful in every word... | |
| Richard Striner - History - 2006 - 320 pages
...right. . . . But . . . the prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution...the African was in violation of the laws of nature. ... It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with; but the general opinion of the men of that... | |
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