...Thomas Jefferson said, "I am not an advocate for frequent changes in la VPS and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind." We believe changes in our Federal tax laws are needed. 1. To supplement the weakened monetary incentive...

...VERMONT Senator LEAHY. The subcommittee can come to order. Thomas Jefferson once observed that, "Law and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As new discoveries are made * * * institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times." We in...

...be patient with outmoded procedures and shoddy workmanship. Thomas Jefferson once put it this way: "Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. ... as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of...

...for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; because, when once known, we accommodate...hand in hand with the progress of the human mind" (p. 1401). It is true that Jefferson, like others among the Founders, saw the United States as an "experiment,"...

...amendment ... I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes . . . but I also know that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind ... as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances,...

...Property Rights and Economic Policy. Constitutional Change and Flexibility. Thomas Jefferson, who believed "laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind," once wrote, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of its patriots...

...age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment . . . But I know . . . that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind." 21 Jefferson believed that constitutions must change, with different constitutions from generation...

...to its stability. But Jefferson castigated "sanctimonious reverence" for constitutions and declared that "laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind." To this end he recommended provision in a new constitution proposed for Virginia in 1816 giving to...

...believed impossible. And Thomas Jefferson believed people to be capable of infinite creativity, writing that "laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind."" Our very birthright as Americans is the capacity to envision and consciously create historic change....

...TRADING) Thomas Jefferson said, "I am not an advocate for frequent changes in law and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind * * * (W)ith change of circumstance, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times, we...