| William Elsey Connelley, Ellis Merton Coulter - 1922 - 650 pages
...justification, the sacred force of truth, and the forms & substance of law and justice. In question of power then let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chain of the Constitution. That this Commonwealth does therefore call on its Co-states for an expression... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education - 1924 - 796 pages
...Our Constitution has accordingly fixed the limits to which and no further our confidence may go. In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him clown from mischief by the chains of the ('oiislitution. Mr. TUCKER. Were those the Kentucky resolutions... | |
| 1924 - 1214 pages
...Constitution of Massachusetts (Declaration of Rights, art. 30) ; or, as Jefferson expressed it: "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." By the Constitution, the people,... | |
| 1912 - 524 pages
...advocate of unlimited judicial power the entire debate is earnestly commended. Said Mr. Jefferson ; "In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him clown frotn mischief by the chains . of the Constitution.'' In simple language, the Patriots of 1776... | |
| Stuart Lewis - 1928 - 720 pages
...claims of justification, the sacred force of truth, and the forms and substance of law and justice. In questions of power then let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the claims of the Constitution. That this Commonwealth does therefore call on its co-states for an expression... | |
| William MacDonald - 1926 - 742 pages
...claims of justification, the sacred force of truth, and the forms and substance of law and justice. In questions of power then let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the claims of the Constitution. That this Commonwealth does therefore call on its co-States for an expression... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1940 - 366 pages
...history -is full of familiar examples of that fact. It was Jefferson himself who said : "In matters of power then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind down the officers of government with the chains of the Constitution." It Was Hamilton who said, "If... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1948 - 522 pages
...that prescribes limited constitutions to bind down those we are obliged to trust with power * * *. In questions of power then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him tlown from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. Jefferson's fears were well founded. The passage... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1960 - 544 pages
...words, the World Court is clearly subject to the criticism voiced by Thomas Jefferson when he wrote, 'Let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chi ins of the Constitution' ; and "Whereas the jurisdiction of the World Court includes 'all matters... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1964 - 438 pages
...Government, leaving the administration of the law to the discretion of men. Thomas Jefferson said : In questions of power then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, bnt bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. It would be folly for America to... | |
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