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 - Página 671819Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| New York (State). Court of Appeals - 1863 - 254 páginas
...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...of the instrument, and give it the properties of a lugal code. It would have been an unwise attempt to provide, by immutable rules, for exigencies which,... | |
| 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 páginas
...consequently, 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...entirely the character of the instrument, and give it the proportions of a written code. It would have been an insane attempt to provide by immutable rules for... | |
| United States. Circuit Courts, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - 1870 - 670 páginas
...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...It would have been an unwise attempt to provide, by ira mutable rules, for exigencies which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1870 - 738 páginas
...consequently to be adapted to various crises of human affairs. To have prescribed the means by which the government should in all future time execute its powers,...attempt to provide by immutable rules for exigencies which, if foreseen at Opinion of Miller, Swayne, and Davis, JJ., dissenting. all, must have beeu but... | |
| Edward McPherson - 1870 - 144 páginas
...consequently to be adapted to various crises of human aflairs. To have prescribed the means by which the government should in all future time execute its powers...properties of a legal code. It would have been an unwisa attempt to provide by immutable rules for exigencies which, if foreseen at all, must have been... | |
| Edward McPherson - 1872
...prescribed the means by which the government should in -all future time execute its powers would b.3Are been to change entirely the character of the instrument,...unwise attempt to. provide by immutable rules for exi;encies which, if foreseen at all, must have been >ut dimly, and which can best be provided for... | |
| Edward McPherson - 1870 - 142 páginas
...consequently to be adapted to various crises of human aftairs. To have prescribed the means by which the government should in all future time execute its powers...change entirely the character of the instrument, and giye it the properties of a legal code. It would have been an unwise attempt to provide by immutable... | |
| 1870 - 546 páginas
...consequently to be adapted to various crises of human aflairs. To have prescribed the means by which the ve very little attention tho instrument and give it the properties of a legal cods. It would have been an unwise attempt to... | |
| 1870 - 546 páginas
...consequently to be adapted to 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 to change entirely the character of tho instrument and give it the properties of a legal code. It would have been an unwise attempt to... | |
| Joseph Story - 1873 - 780 páginas
...Constitution intended to endure for V» to come, and, con-equently, to be adapted to the various crines of human affairs. To have prescribed the means by...government should, in all future time, execute its [lowers, would have been to change entirely the character of the in«truincnt and give it the properties... | |
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