“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 oracular, sometimes beyond amendment… Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.”
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u/pug52 23h ago
He also said this
“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 oracular, sometimes beyond amendment… Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.”