Klukie
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Wed Nov-23-11 11:21 AM
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Jefferson on Constitutions... |
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"Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment... laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind... as that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, institutions must advance also, to keep pace with the times.... We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain forever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors." -- Thomas Jefferson, on reform of the Virginia Constitution http://books.google.com/books?id=icGh3NxREIIC&pg=PA199&lpg=PA199&dq=%22Some+men+look+at+constitutions+with+sanctimonious+reverence%2C+and+deem+them+like+the+arc+of+the+covenant%2C+too+sacred+to+be+touched.+They+ascribe+to+the+men+of+the+preceding+age+a+wisdom+more+than+human%2C+and+suppose+what+they+did+beyond+amendment.+.+.+.+Let+us&source=bl&ots=xOGdmLYJQB&sig=CHk70bnGlUO9b9QCHiJ3Ims4irI&hl=en&ei=DcYlTa-FGoP_8AbJm9CDAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CEYQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q&f=false
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Wed Nov-23-11 11:29 AM
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1. Obviously Scalia, Roberts and Alito have never read this |
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and clearly Scalia has not read it to Thomas.
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