 Let me add that a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.  Seasoned Judgments - Strana xviiautor/autoři: Leonard W. LevyOmezený náhled - Podrobnosti o knize
 | R. B. Bernstein - 2004 - 258 str.
...injure rights. Even if there was no danger to liberty, Jefferson lectured Madison on December 20, 1787, "a bill of rights is what the people are entitled...every government on earth, general or particular, & what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference." In late 1787 and 1788, Americans divided... | |
 | Myles J. Kelleher - 2004 - 346 str.
...federal bill of rights was purposely omitted from the US Constitution. When Jefferson wrote from France, "a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth," Madison responded that in his experience, "parchment barriers" like those of Jefferson's Virginia had... | |
 | G. S. Prentzas - 2005 - 56 str.
...threatened not to ratify it nless it guaranteed basic civil rights. Virginia's Thomas Jefferson argued, "A bill of rights is what the people are entitled...what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference." To ensure that the Constitution would be ratified, the delegates at the Constitutional... | |
 | Mark Crispin Miller - 2004 - 366 str.
...the rights that Jefferson regarded as essential to republican democracy — wherever it might thrive: "Let me add that a bill of rights is what the people...every government on earth, general or particular, & what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences." Aware that such rights must be forever... | |
 | Todd Weinfield - 2005 - 188 str.
...Jefferson, in his letter to James Madison after reviewing the proposed US Constitution, stated in 1787: "A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth" which should include "freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies,... | |
 | Michael Warren - 2005 - 408 str.
...over the mind of man."— Thomas Jefferson, September 23, 1800, as inscribed in the Jefferson Memorial "A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on Earth... and what no just government should refuse."— Thomas Jefferson in a Letter to James Madison, Paris,... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - 2005 - 860 str.
...unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury." A Bill of Rights, Jefferson added, "is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth." For Jefferson, as for many other Americans, the preeminent purpose of a basic frame of government was... | |
 | Mark David Ledbetter - 379 str.
...trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of Nations... Let me add that a bill of rights is what the people...what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. The second feature I dislike, and greatly dislike, is the abandonment in every instance... | |
 | Kathryn Page Camp - 2006 - 232 str.
...laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land . . ."7 He went on to add that "a bill of rights is what the people are...what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference."8 Jefferson believed that it would be best for the country if the first nine states ratified... | |
 | Michael S Lief, H. Mitchell Caldwell - 2006 - 456 str.
...anti-Federalist papers, town hall debates, and public outcry, the new government heeded Thomas Jefferson's words: "A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled...what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference." Although twelve amendments to the Constitution were proposed, only ten were ratified. The... | |
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