...body of the discourse, this writer says : " One of the grand errors of an age, which professed them all, was to believe that a political constitution could be written and created d priori; whilst reason and experience unite in establishing that a constitution is a Divine work,...

...have developed through the centuries. 'One of the great errors of a century which professed all errors was to believe that a political constitution could be written and created a priori, 1 Considerations sur la France (Brussels, 1838), p. 2. whereas reason and experience are united in...

...and of Other Human Institutions (1814)1 I. One of the gravest errors of an age which embraced them all was to believe that a political constitution could be written and created a priori, whereas reason and experience agree that a constitution is a divine work and that it is precisely the...

...written in 1809, opens with these words: 'One of the great errors of a century that professed them all was to believe that a political constitution could be written and created a priori.'*8 And de Bonald echoed him, in identical terms, in his Legislation primitive. Although he...

...have developed through the centuries. 'One of the great errors of a century which professed all errors was to believe that a political constitution could be written and created a priori, 1 Considerations sur la France (Brussels, 1838), p. 2. 3 Ibid., p. 21. 3 Ibid., p. 127. • Ibid.,...

...consistent and more brilliant logician. -f -fy I. One of the grand errors of an age, which professed them all, was, to believe that a political constitution could be written and created a priori; whilst reason and experience unite in establishing, that a constitution is a Divine work, and that...