 | Joseph Bartlett Burleigh - Parliamentary practice - 1853 - 354 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... | |
 | Presidents - 1853 - 514 pages
...government ; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion. credit jf 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... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - Presidents - 1853 - 466 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...; and remember, especially, that for the efficient manage ment of your common interests, in a country so ex tensive as ours, a government of as much vigour,... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1854 - 616 pages
...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...hypothesis and opinion; and remember especially, that from the efficient management of your common interests, in a country so extensive as ours, a government... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 pages
...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...hypothesis and opinion ; and remember especially, that from the efficient management of your common interests, in a country so extensive as ours, a government... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1854 - 590 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...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... | |
 | United States. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission - Political Science - 1941 - 904 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 credit of mere hypotheses & opinion exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypotheses and opinion:... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - Biography & Autobiography - 1961 - 630 pages
...that facility in changes upon the mere credit of hypothesis and opinion, exposes /perpetual toAcndlo55 change from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion: And remember especially that for the efficacious management of your common concerns, in a country so extensive as ours, a Government of... | |
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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... 
