 | John Clay Smith - History - 2000 - 364 pages
...revolution. The prevailing ideas entertained by Thomas Jefferson and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution...in principle, socially, morally, and politically. And then he goes on to say: Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea. Its foundations... | |
 | W. E. B. Du Bois - History - 1998 - 772 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. . . . Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and by most of the leading statesmen of the time of the formation of the old constitution,...Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This idea, though not incorporated in the Constitution, was the prevailing idea at the time.... | |
 | Stephen M. Feldman - Law - 2000 - 285 pages
...revolution. . . . The prevailing ideas entertained by him [Jefferson] and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was . . . wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. . . . This was an error. . . . Our new... | |
 | Thomas G. West - History - 1997 - 244 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. . . .These ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - History - 2001 - 532 pages
...struggle: The pievailing ideas entertained by him [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... | |
 | Walter Berns - Political Science - 2002 - 164 pages
...most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the [Constitution of the United States], were that the enslavement of the African was in violation...in principle, socially, morally, and politically." But, unlike Lincoln, who made the same point in his opening lines at Gettysburg, Stephens said these... | |
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The prevailing ideas entertained by him, and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was wrong in principle, socially,... 
