| Charles Austin Beard - United States - 1909 - 660 pages
...detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and of all the means by which it may 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... | |
| Charles William Eliot - America - 1910 - 480 pages
...those embarrassments. A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and of all the means...into execution, would partake of the prolixity of the legal code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. It would probably never be understood... | |
| Charles William Eliot - America - 1910 - 508 pages
...those embarrassments. A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and of all the means...into execution, would partake of the prolixity of the legal code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. It would probably never be understood... | |
| Hannis Taylor - Constitutional history - 1911 - 738 pages
...said: "A constitution, to contain imPUedP°wersan accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and of all the means...may be carried into execution, would partake of the perplexity of a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. . . . The Government... | |
| Allen Johnson - Constitutional history - 1912 - 620 pages
...avoidjthose embarrassments. A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and of all the means...be understood by the public. Its nature, therefore, requires^that only its great outlines should be marked, its important objects designated, and the minor... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1544 pages
...Maryland, 4 Wheat. 405: "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 it may be carried into exeqution, would partake 'of the prolixity of a political code, and would scarcely... | |
| George Woodward Wickersham - United States - 1914 - 306 pages
...things in a constitution : A constitution to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit and of all the means by...legal code, and could scarcely be embraced by the legal mind. It would probably never be understood by the public. Its nature requires, therefore, that... | |
| James Parker Hall - Constitutional law - 1914 - 528 pages
...those embarrassments. A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and of all the means...the prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely be em» Article II: "Each state retains • • • every power • • • not • * * expressly delegated."... | |
| William Bennett Bizzell - Courts - 1914 - 292 pages
...and minutely described. 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 out, would partake of the prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind.... | |
| Eugene Wambaugh - Constitutional law - 1915 - 1106 pages
...those embarrassments. A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and of all the means...would partake of the prolixity of a legal code, and couldscarcely be embraced by the human mind. It would probably never be understood by the public. Its... | |
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