 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
 | 1874 - 500 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 which...instrument, and give it the properties of a legal code. 77 * * * 64 To have declared that the best means shall not be used, but those alone without which the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1874 - 554 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 which...instrument, and give it the properties of a legal code." * * * " To have declared that the best means shall not be used, but those alone without which the power... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1874 - 940 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...should in all future time execute its powers would have to change entirely the character of the instrument, and give it the properties of a legal code. To... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 2042 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.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 1038 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.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 408 pages
...prescribed the means by whioh government should, in all future time, execute its powers, w.oukl have b<ien to change, entirely, the character of the instrument,,...attempt to provide, by immutable rules, for exigencies which, if foreseen at all, must have -been seen dimly, and which can be best provided McCuUoch v. Maryland.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1088 pages
...which the end would be entirely unattainable." "To have prescribed the means," this court has said, "by which government should, In all future time, execute...would have been to change entirely the character of that instrument, and give it the properties of a legal code. It would have been an unwise attempt to... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 890 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.... | |
 | Sir Fortunatus Dwarris - Constitutional law - 1885 - 698 pages
...of human affairs. To have prescribed the means by which the government should, in all future times, execute its powers, would have been to change, entirely,...instrument, and give it the properties of a legal (!ode. It would have been an unwise attempt to provide by immutable rules, for exigencies which, if... | |
 | John Innes Clark Hare - Constitutional law - 1888 - 764 pages
...to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." " To have prescribed the means by which the government should in all future time execute its powers, would have been an unwise attempt to provide by immutable rules for exigencies which if foreseen at all must have been... | |
| |
