 To have prescribed the means by which government should, in all future time, execute its powers, would have been to change, entirely, the character of the instrument, and give it the properties of a legal code.  Niles' National Register - Page 671819Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...constitution intended to endure for ages to come, and, consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs. To have prescribed the means by...attempt to. provide, by immutable rules, for exigencies which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can be best provided for as they occur.... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 564 pages
...constitution intended to endure for ages to conic, and, consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs. To have prescribed the means, by...attempt to provide, by immutable rules, for exigencies, which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can be best provided for, as they occur.... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 540 pages
...for ages to come, and, consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs. To hnve prescribed the means, by which government should,...attempt to provide, by immutable rules, for exigencies, which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can be best provided for, as they occur.... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...constitution intended to endure for ages to come, and, consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs. To have prescribed the means by...instrument, and give it the properties of a legal codeV} It would have been an unwise attempt to provide, by immutable rules, for exigencies which, if... | |
 | William Alexander Duer - Constitutional law - 1843 - 436 pages
...time, execute its powers, would have changed entirely the character of the Constitution, and given it the properties of a legal code. It would have been...an unwise attempt to provide by immutable rules for cases which, if foreseen at all, must have been perceived indistinctly, and which could have been better... | |
 | Child rearing - 1845 - 436 pages
...time, execute its powers, would have changed entirely the character of the Constitution, and given it the properties of a legal code. It would have been...an unwise attempt to provide by immutable rules for cases which, if foreseen at all, must have been perceived indistinctly, and which could*have been better... | |
 | Charles Bishop Goodrich - United States - 1853 - 364 pages
...powers of government were intended to endure for ages to come, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs. To have prescribed the means by...to change entirely the character of the instrument. It would have been an unwise attempt to provide by immutable rules, for exigencies which, if foreseen... | |
 | Charles Bishop Goodrich - United States - 1853 - 364 pages
...future time execute its powers, would have been to change entirely the character of the instrument. It would have been an unwise attempt to provide by immutable rules, for exigencies which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can be best provided for as they occur.*... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 834 pages
...for ages to come, and to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs. To prescribe the specific means by which government should in all future time execute its powers, and to confine its choice of means to such narrow limits as should not leave it iu the power of Congress... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Banks and banking - 1863 - 76 pages
...Constitution intended to endure for ages to come, and, consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs. To have prescribed the means by...attempt to provide, by immutable rules, for exigencies which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can be best provided for as they occur.... | |
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