 This is one of those truths which, to a correct and unprejudiced mind, carries its own evidence along with it; and may be obscured, but cannot be made plainer by argument or reasoning. It rests upon axioms as simple as they are universal — the means...  Scrap Book on Law and Politics, Men and Times - Page 197by George Robertson - 1855 - 404 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Timothy Farrar - Constitutional law - 1867 - 556 pages
...no power to do it, is therefore a contradiction in terms. " The means," says Alexander Hamilton, " ought to be proportioned to the end ; the persons from whose agency the attainment of any eud is expected ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained." 2 It will not answer to... | |
 | Impeachments - 1868 - 542 pages
...be made plainer by argument or reasoning. It rests upon axioma as simple as they are universal — the means ought to be proportioned to the end; the...to possess the means by which it is to be attained. The end required by the letter of your Constitution of the Senate of the United States is that the... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1868 - 902 pages
...evidence along with it, and may be obscured, bit: cannot be made plainer by argument or reasoning. The means ought to be proportioned to the end, the...possess the means by which it is to be attained." (Federalist No. 23.) Mr. Madison, in speaking of the impossibility of anticipating the exigencies which... | |
 | Theology - 1868 - 884 pages
...says Alexander Hamilton, ought to be proportioned to the 400 NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS. [April. end ; the persons from whose agency the attainment...expected ought to possess the means by which it is attained" (pp. 78, 79). By enunciating such principles Judge Farrar'Iays the foundation for important... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 312 pages
...as simple as thcv are u nivernalThe persons from whose agency the attainment of aa end is expcctive, ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained. The end is expected, bv the letter of your Constitution, from the Senate of the United States, to decide... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 802 pages
...stated in the language of Alexander Hamilton: It " rests upon two axioms, simple as they are universal : the means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of the end is expected, ought Argument for the contractor. to possess the means by which it is attained."... | |
 | Elbridge Gerry Spaulding - Finance - 1869 - 292 pages
...FORCES." This statement, adds Hamilton — "Rests upon two anxioms, simple as they are universal : the means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of the end is expected ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained."— Federalist, No. 23,... | |
 | Elbridge Gerry Spaulding - Finance, Public - 1869 - 368 pages
...the means ought to be proportioned to the end: the persons from whose agency the attainment of the end is expected ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained."— Federalist, No. 23, pp. 95, 96. Congress may judge of the necessity in the present exigency. It may... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1869 - 856 pages
...be made plainer by argument or reasoning. It rests upon axioms, as simple as they are universal — the means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency tho attainment of any end is expected, ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained. Whether... | |
 | Elbridge Gerry Spaulding - Finance - 1869 - 268 pages
...the means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of the end is expected ought to possess the means by which it is to tie attained."—federalist, No. 23, pp. 95, 96. Congress may judge of the necessity in the present... | |
| |
