| Indiana - 1849 - 520 pages
...principles, however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the constitution, alterations which will impair the energy...the true character of governments, as of other human institutions ; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing... | |
| Kentucky. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional amendments - 1849 - 1140 pages
...method of assault may be to effect, in the form* of the constitution, alterations which will im' pair the energy of the system, and thus to un'dermine what cannot be directly overtbrown. ' In all the changes to whioh you may be invited, ' remember that time and habit are at... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1850 - 318 pages
...principles, however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the constitution, alterations which will impair the energy...the true character of governments, as of other human institutions : that experience is the surest standard, by which to test the real tendency of the existing... | |
| William Hickey - 1851 - 588 pages
...principles, however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the Constitution, alterations which will impair the energy...the true character of governments as of other human institutions ; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing... | |
| William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1851 - 580 pages
...principles, however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the Constitution, alterations which will impair the energy...the true character of governments as of other human institutions ; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing... | |
| Indiana - 1851 - 720 pages
...principles, however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be, to effect, in the forms of the constitution, alterations which will impair the energy...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... | |
| Alexander Hamilton - 1851 - 946 pages
...effect alterations in the forms of the Constitution tending to impair the energy of the system, and so to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown. In...you may be invited, remember that time and habit are as necessary to fix the true character of governments as of any other human institutions; that experience... | |
| 1852 - 746 pages
...principles, however specious the pretext One method of assault may be to effect in the fonns of the Constitution alterations which will impair the energy...to •undermine what cannot be directly overthrown. FOREIGN INFLUENCE. Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, ^1 conjure you to believe me,... | |
| Levi Carroll Judson - United States - 1852 - 516 pages
...principles however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be to effect in the forms of the constitution, alterations which will impair the energy...the true character of governments, as of other human institutions, that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing... | |
| United States. Congress - United States - 1852 - 694 pages
...principles, however specious the pretext. One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the Constitution, alterations which will impair the energy...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... | |
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