 | 1891 - 556 páginas
...amazement, Like witless antics, one another meet. /Shakespeare. CONSTITUTION. MEANING OF. A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact. It has not an ideal but a real existence, and wherever it cannot be produced in a visible form, there is none. A constitution is a thing antecedent... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1892 - 300 páginas
...sufficient that we adopt the word ; we must fix also a standard signification to it. A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact. It has not an ideal, but a real existence ; and wherever it cannot be produced in a visible form, there is none. A constitution is a thing antecedent... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1908 - 374 páginas
...sufficient that we adopt the word; we must fix also a standard signification to it. A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact. It has not an ideal, but a real existence; and wherever it cannot be produced in a visible form, there is none. A constitution is a thing antecedent... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1913 - 556 páginas
...treaties, which do not reciprocally bind the inhabitants of that island. "A Constitution," says Mr. Paine, "is not a thing in name only but in fact. It has not an ideal, but a real existence ; and wherever it cannot be produced in a visible form, there is none." Mr. Paine should have gone farther,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1971 - 1170 páginas
...constitutional process by an agency of "ederal Government. For as Thomas Paine said : Constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact. It has not an ideal real existence, and wherever it cannot be produced in a visible form, there ae." Very truly yours,... | |
 | David A. Wilson - 1988 - 252 páginas
...Man he brought his message directly to an English audience.* 5 "A constitution," he wrote in 1791, "is not a thing in name only, but in fact. It has not an ideal, but a real existence; and wherever it cannot be produced in a visible form, there is none. A constitution is a thing antecedent... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1995 - 944 páginas
...sufficient that we adopt the word; we must fix also a standard signification to it. A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact. It has not an ideal, but a real existence; and wherever it cannot be produced in a visible form, there is none. A constitution is a thing antecedent... | |
 | W. J. T. Mitchell, William John Thomas Mitchell - 1995 - 466 páginas
...Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) (New York: Doubleday, 1961), pp. 98-99. name only, but in fact. It has not an ideal, but a real existence; and wherever it cannot be produced in visible form, there is none.30 Where did Blake stand in this dispute... | |
 | James Vernon - 1996 - 284 páginas
...dichotomies between real and ideal and fact and fiction, in the much quoted phrase 'A Constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact. It has not an ideal, but a real existence; and wherever it cannot be produced in visible form, there is none'; Thomas Paine, Rights of Man (1791-2;... | |
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A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact. It has not an ideal, but a real existence ; and wherever it cannot be produced in a visible form, there is none. 
