 | Bob Pepperman Taylor - 1992 - 208 страници
...language here suggests that he has in mind Jefferson's famous letter to Madison (6 September 1798): "I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident,...that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it" (Thomas Jefferson, The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Adrienne Koch and William... | |
 | George F. Will - 2010 - 284 страници
...only to merit decision, but place also among the fundamental principles of every government. ... I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident,...that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it. ... Then, no man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied, or the persons who succeed him... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1993 - 220 страници
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 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 страници
...on this or our side of the water. ... I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living:"...that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it. THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to James Madison, September 6, 1789.— The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed.... | |
 | Eugene D. Genovese - 1994 - 168 страници
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 | Lance Banning - 1995 - 264 страници
...question to my mind; & that no such obligation can be so transmitted I think very capable of proof. I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident,...individual ceases to be his when himself ceases to be, & reverts to the society. If the society has formed no rules for the appropriation of it's lands in... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, James Madison - 1995 - 730 страници
...Jefferson wrote a fascinating letter to Madison about the sovereignty of the living generation, arguing " 'that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living:...the dead have neither powers nor rights over it." According to Jefferson's actuarial calculations, the life of a generation during its majority spanned... | |
 | David N. Mayer - 1994 - 420 страници
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 | Herbert E. Sloan - 1995 - 400 страници
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I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living ; that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it. 
