 | Derek H. Davis - 2000 - 328 страници
...acknowledged the value of this pragmatic view. In the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, Jefferson declared, "In questions of power, then, let no more be heard...but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."94 An exchange between two long-retired presidents is instructive. In December 1819 Jefferson... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - 2004 - 574 страници
...everywhere the parent of despotism: free government is founded in jealousy and not in confidence. ... In questions of power then let no more be heard of...but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.116 One can hardly imagine a greatet distance than the one separating this from Paul and... | |
 | Charles W. Dunn - 2001 - 232 страници
...prescribes limited constitutions, to bind those we are obligated to trust with power. In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man but bind him down to mischief by the chains of the conThe Founders' Belief in Higher Law Besides espousing limited government,... | |
 | Stephen G. Post, Lynn G. Underwood, Jeffrey P. Schloss, William B. Hurlbut - 2002 - 532 страници
...monograph appeared — had a dark view. "In questions of power," he would later write, "let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution." Paine similarly saw the purpose of constitutions as "to restrain and regulate the wild impulse of power"... | |
 | John W Chalfant - 2003 - 266 страници
...and thus his underlying threat to freedom, said, "In questions of power, then, let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."28 What Is Self-government? What, therefore, is America's self-government? The term sounds... | |
 | Charles R. Anderson - 2003 - 236 страници
...hear no more of trust in men." This is a somewhat garbled version of something Thomas Jefferson said: "In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in men, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution" (Jeffersonian Cyclopedia, 1900).... | |
 | Charles W. Dunn, J. David Woodard - 2003 - 246 страници
...prescribes limited constitutions, to bind those we are obligated to trust with power. In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man but bind him down to mischief by the chains of the constitution."32 The Judeo-Christian conception of man is that he... | |
 | H. Lee Cheek - 2004 - 220 страници
...safeguarded the citizen from the abuse of federal power through a hermeneutic of original protection. "In questions of power, then, let no more be heard...bind him down from mischief, by the chains of the Consti22. Report, 165. 23. "Remarks on the Bill to Incorporate and Establish the Smithsonian Institution,"... | |
 | Robert M. S. McDonald - 2004 - 264 страници
...the Constitution as having "fixed the limits to which . . . our confidence may go," he maintained, "In questions of power, then, let no more be heard...but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."28 Those "chains," as Jefferson understood them, comprised all the various structural... | |
 | Sean Shealy - 2004 - 176 страници
...Used with permission from Executive Intelligence Review. All Rights Reserved "(I)n questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man but bind...from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." Thomas Jefferson "We must ask (ourselves) why should America put aside guarantees of Constitutional... | |
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... in questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. 
