 | 1819 - 652 sider
...omitted it to avoid those embarrassments. A constitution, to contain an accuratedetail nf all thí subdivisions of which its great powers will admit,...would probably never be understood by the public. Its nature, therefore, requires that only its great outlines should be marked, its important objects... | |
 | 1819 - 660 sider
...confederation, and probably omitted it to avoid those embarrassments. A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its...the prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely he embraced by the human mind. It would probably never be understood by the public. Its nature, therefore,... | |
 | William Rawle - 1825 - 438 sider
...which compose those objects, be deduced from the nature of the objects themselves. If it contained an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its...means by which they may be carried into execution, it would partake of the prolixity of a legal code, and rather tend to embarrass than to elucidate.... | |
 | Henry Baldwin - 1837 - 236 sider
...one can fail to be impressed with the truth and force of his remarks. " A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its...would probably never be understood by the public. Its nature, therefore, requires that only its great outlines should be marked, its important objects... | |
 | Henry Baldwin - 1837 - 230 sider
...one can fail to be impressed with the truth and force of his remarks. " A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its...would probably never be understood by the public. Its nature, therefore, requires that only its great outlines should be marked, its important objects... | |
 | James Madison Porter - 1837 - 72 sider
...the details of legislation. " A constitution," (saysC. J. Marshall, 4 Wheaton, 407,) " to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and all the means by which they may be carried into execution, would partake of the prolixity of a legal... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1838 - 696 sider
...the details of legislation. " A constitution," (says CJ Marshall, 4 Wheaton, 407,) " to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and all the means by which they may be carried into execution, would partake of the prolixity of a legal... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 sider
...did not attempt to go into an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers would admit, and of all the means by which they may be carried into execution. That would have made it a prolix code, and probably one never to be understood by the public. Its nature... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 sider
...confederation, and probably omitted it to avoid those embarrassments. • A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its...would probably never be understood by the public. |_Its nature therefore requires that only its great outlines should be marked, its important objects... | |
 | William Alexander Duer - 1843 - 442 sider
...Constitution," he continued, " can contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of its powers, and of all the means by which they may be carried into execution. Its nature required that only the * Marshall. great outlines should be marked and its important objects... | |
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A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and of all the means by which they may be carried into execution, would partake of the prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced... 
