 | John Dickinson - 1801 - Liczba stron: 650
...* 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 to a government; and a government is only the creature of a constitution... | |
 | 1811 - Liczba stron: 662
...in faft."—1 hat is, a thing is a thing— it has not an ideal but a real exiftence; and "wberrvef it cannot be produced in a vISIBLE FORM, there is...exiftence depend merely upon its being written down ?—A conftitution is a thing antecedent to government, and a government is only the creature of a conftitution.—Now... | |
 | Virginia. General Court, William Brockenbrough, Hugh Holmes - 1815 - Liczba stron: 364
...celebrated 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. A constitution is a " thing antecedent to government, and a government is " only the creature of a... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1826 - Liczba stron: 470
...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 to a government, and a government is only the creature of a constitution.... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1826 - Liczba stron: 482
...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 to a government, and a government is only the creature of a constitution.... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1833 - Liczba stron: 270
...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 to a government, and a government is only the creature of a constitution.... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1837 - Liczba stron: 716
...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 to a government, and a government is only the creature of a constitution.... | |
 | 1891 - Liczba stron: 556
...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 to a government, and a government is only the creature of a constitution.... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1892 - Liczba stron: 300
...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 to a government, and a government is only the creature of a constitution.... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison - 1894 - Liczba stron: 980
...constitution Is not a thing in name only, but infact. — It has not an Ideal hut a real existence, and wherever it cannot be produced in a visible form, there is none. A constitution is a thing-antecedent to a government ; and a government is only the creature of a constitution.... | |
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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. 
