 | Benjamin Romaine - Nullification (States' rights) - 1832 - 68 pages
...opinions, exposes to per" petual change, from the endless variety of hypo"tJiesis and opinion. c £^ That in a country so "extensive as ours, a Government of as much " vigour, as is consistant with perfect security of " liberty, is iidispensible. frowning upon the first " dawning... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1833 - 248 pages
...experience is the surest standard, by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country ; that facility in changes, upon the...country so extensive as ours, a government of as much vigor as is consistent with the perfect security of liberty, is indispenable. Liberty itself will find... | |
 | United States - 1833 - 64 pages
...tendency of the existing constitution of a country—that facility in changes upon the credit of a mere hypothesis and opinion, exposes to perpetual...country so extensive as ours, a government of as much vigor as is consistent with the perfect security of liberty, is indispensable. Liberty itself will... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - Presidents - 1833 - 408 pages
...that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country; that facility in changes, upon the credit...and opinion, exposes to perpetual change, from the endles» variety of hypothesis and opinion; and remember, especially, that for the efficient management... | |
 | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau - Constitutional law - 1834 - 148 pages
...experience is the surest standard, by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country — that facility in changes upon the...consistent with the perfect security of liberty, is indispensable. Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 622 pages
...experience is the surest standard, by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country ; that facility in changes, upon the...country so extensive as ours, a government of as much vigor as is consistent with the perfect security of liberty is indispensable. Liberty itself will find... | |
 | Richard Snowden - America - 1832 - 360 pages
...that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country ; that facility in changes, upon the...exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypotheses and opinion ; and remember, especially, that for the efficient management of yourcommon... | |
 | Fisher Ames - Democracy - 1835 - 242 pages
...experience is the surest standard, by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country ; that facility in changes, upon the...consistent with the perfect security of liberty, is indispensable. Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1835 - 772 pages
...tendency of the existing constitution of a country ; that facility in changes, upon the mere credit of hypothesis and opinion, exposes to perpetual change,...consistent with the perfect security of liberty is indispensable. Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1835 - 698 pages
...tendency of the existing constitution of a country ; that facility in changes, upon the mere credit of hypothesis and opinion, exposes to perpetual change,...consistent with the perfect security of liberty is indispensable. Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and... | |
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In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments as of other human institutions — that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency... 
