 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...  Niles' National Register - Side 651819Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1909 - 746 sider
...be carried into execution, would partake of the prolixity of a political code, and would scarcely be embraced by the human mind. It would probably never...deduced from the nature of the objects themselves." If these are correct principles, if they are proper views of the manner in which the Constitution is... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - 1868 - 672 sider
...they may be carried into execution, would partake of the prolixity of a code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. It would probably never be understood by the public." The nature of a constitution, then, is to mark the great outlines, and designate the important objects... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1872
...be carried into execution, would partake of the prolixity of a political code, and would scarcely be embraced by the human mind. It would probably never...deduced from the nature of the objects themselves." If these are correct principles, if they are proper views of the manner in which the Constitution is... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1872 - 248 sider
...be carried into execution, would partake of the prolixity of a political code, and would scarcely be embraced by the human mind. It would probably never...deduced from the nature of the objects themselves." If these are correct principles, if they are proper views of the manner in which the Constitution is... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1872 - 192 sider
...be carried into execution, would partake of the prolixity of a political code, and would scarcely be embraced by the human mind. It would probably never be understood by the public. Its nature, there* fore, requires that only its great outlines should be marked, its important objects designated,... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1873 - 780 sider
...may be carried into execution, would partake of the prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. It would probably never...great outlines should be marked, its important objects designed, and the minor ingredients which compose those objects be deduced from the nature of those... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1873 - 786 sider
...therefore, requires that only its great outlines should be marked, its important objects designed, and the minor ingredients which compose those objects be deduced from the nature of those objects themselves. That this idea was entertained by the framers of the American Constitution,... | |
 | Orlando Bump - 1878 - 474 sider
...granted to it. M'Culloch v. State, 4 Wheat. 316 ; US v. Bailey, 1 McLean, 234. and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. It would probably never...compose those objects be deduced from the nature of those objects themselves. M'Culloch v. State, 4 Wheat. 316. The theory of the Constitution is that... | |
 | Great Britain. Privy Council. Judicial Committee, Canada. Supreme Court - 1882 - 934 sider
...may be carried into execution, would partake of the prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. It would probably never...deduced from the nature of the objects themselves : " McCulloch v. The State of Maryland (1). In our present enquiry we are alone concerned with the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1884 - 966 sider
...be carried into execution, would partake of the prolixity of a political code, and would scarcely be embraced by the human mind. It would probably never...deduced from the nature of the objects themselves." If these are correct principles, if they are proper views of the manner in which the Constitution is... | |
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