 | George Lewis Prentiss - 1855 - 598 pagina’s
...pay in their own time ; that is to say, within thirty-four years from the date of the engagement. " On similar ground, it may be proved, that no society...a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. * * * Every constitution, then, and «very law, naturally expires at the end of thirty-four years.... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1857 - 408 pagina’s
...within thirty-four years from the date of the engagement." He concludes his course of reasoning thus : " That no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law." Consequently all constitutions must be adopted or renewed every thirty-five years ; and if not, it... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1868 - 758 pagina’s
...procured by the inattention of money lenders to this law of nature, that succeeding generations arc not responsible for the preceding. On similar ground...perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living genera* tion : they may manage it, then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct.... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1871 - 758 pagina’s
...the law of nature. The interest of the national debt of France being, in fact, but a two-thousandth part of its rent-roll, the payment of it is practicable...perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The eurtfi belongs always to the living generation : they may manage it, then, and what proceeds from it,... | |
 | Lloyd D. Simpson - 1885 - 206 pagina’s
...miscalculation or oversight, the time is much shorter, as will appear further on.) " On similar grounds, it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or a perpetual law. Every constitution, and every law naturally expires at the end of thirty-four years,"... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1887 - 560 pagina’s
...Constitution or a form of government having the elements of duration unsubject to the freaks of the many : — "On similar ground it may be proved, that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation ; they may manage it, then, and what... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1895 - 562 pagina’s
...lenders to this law of nature, that succeeding generations are not responsible for the preceding. ^T On similar ground it may be proved that no society...make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual Iaw77 The earth belongs always to the living generation: They may manage it then, and what proceeds... | |
 | George Lewis Prentiss - 1899 - 594 pagina’s
...pay in their own time ; that is to §ay, within thirty-four years from the date of the engagement. " On similar ground, it may be proved, that no society...a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. * * * Every constitution, then, and •very law, naturally expires at the end of thirty-four years.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1903 - 530 pagina’s
...earth belongs in usufruct to the living, that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it. * * * On similar ground it may be proved that no society...a perpetual constitution or even a perpetual law. * * * Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of nineteen years. If it... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1905 - 1044 pagina’s
...earth belongs in usufruct to the living, that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it. * * * On similar ground it may be proved that no society...a perpetual constitution or even a perpetual law. * * * Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of nineteen years. If it... | |
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On similar ground it may be proved, that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. 
