The idea that institutions established for the use of the nation cannot be touched or modified, even to make them answer their end, because of rights gratuitously supposed in those employed to manage them in the trust for the public, may perhaps be a... The History of Dartmouth College - Page 91by Baxter Perry Smith - 1878 - 474 pagesFull view - About this book
| Law - 1876 - 860 pages
...will make such further provisions as will render this important institution more useful to mankind." Governor Plumer communicated this message to Jefferson,...modified, even to make them answer their end, because of rightr gratuitously supposed in those employed to manage them in trust for the public, may perhaps... | |
| Law - 1876 - 870 pages
...will make such further provisions as will render this important institution more useful to mankind." Governor Plumer communicated this message to Jefferson,...even to make them answer their end, because of rights 1 gratuitously supposed in those employed to manage them in trust for the public, may perhaps be a... | |
| Law - 1898 - 402 pages
...too, are worthy of notice. The idea that institutions established for the use of the nation can not be touched nor modified, even to make them answer...manage them in trust for the public, may perhaps be a salutory provision against the nation itself. Yet our lawyers and priests generally inculcate this... | |
| Edward Samuel Corwin - Constitutional history - 1919 - 440 pages
...characteristic answer in reply: "It is replete," said the Republican sage, "with sound principles. . . . The idea that institutions established for the use...touched nor modified, even to make them answer their end . . . is most absurd. . . . Yet our lawyers and priests generally inculcate this doctrine, and suppose... | |
| Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 1919 - 738 pages
...genius of a free government." (Barstow, 396.) This message Plumer sent to Jefferson, who replied that the idea "that institutions, established for the use...touched nor modified, even to make them answer their end . . is most absurd. . . Yet our lawyers and priests generally inculcate this doctrine; and suppose... | |
| United States - 1919 - 300 pages
...characteristic answer in reply : "It is replete," said the Republican sage, "with sound principles. . . . The idea that institutions established for the use...touched nor modified, even to make them answer their end ... is most absurd. . . . Yet our lawyers and priests generally inculcate this doctrine, and suppose... | |
| United States - 1921 - 612 pages
...characteristic answer in reply: "It is replete," said the Republican sage, "with sound principles. . . . The idea that institutions established for the use...touched nor modified, even to make them answer their end ... is most absurd. . . . Yet our lawyers and priests generally inculcate this doctrine, and suppose... | |
| George M. Marsden - Education, Higher - 1994 - 482 pages
...wrote to William Plumer, the Democratic governor, congratulating him on the act. In Jefferson's view, "The idea that institutions established for the use...touched nor modified, even to make them answer their end . . . may perhaps be a salutary provision against the abuses of a monarch, but is most absurd against... | |
| Edwin S. Gaustad - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 268 pages
...the school. In 1816, Jefferson voiced his strong support in a letter to the governor, arguing against the idea that "institutions established for the use of the nation cannot be touched or modified" in any way. "Our lawyers and priests," Jefferson added, "suppose that preceding generations... | |
| Jean Edward Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 788 pages
...21, 1816, shortly after the legislature had acted, he wrote a letter of support to Governor Plumer. "The idea that institutions established for the use of the Nation cannot be touched or modified, even to make them answer their end, because of rights gratuitously supposed in those who... | |
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