| Law - 1917 - 510 pages
...scholar and diplomat, James Bryce, at one time British Ambassador to the United States, said: "Yet after all deductions, it ranks above every other written...its scheme, its adaptation to the circumstances of people, the simplicity, brevity, and precision of its language, its judicious mixture of definiteness... | |
| Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1921 - 566 pages
...Constitution: "It deserves the veneration with which the Americans have been ac-. customed to regard it*** After all deductions, it ranks above every other written...its language, its judicious mixture of definiteness of principle with elasticity in details." Of the government created by the Constitution he says: "It... | |
| James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - Political corruption - 1888 - 786 pages
...by whom it has been worked, and who might have managed to work even a worse drawn instrument. Yet, after all deductions, it ranks above every other written...mixture of definiteness in principle with elasticity in details.2 One is therefore induced to ask, before proceeding to examine it, to what causes, over and... | |
| James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1888 - 634 pages
...by whom it has been worked, and who might have managed to work even a worse drawn instrument. Yet, after all deductions, it ranks above every other written...precision of its language, its judicious mixture of defmiteness in principle with elasticity in details.-' One is therefore induced 1 It if hard to say... | |
| Self-culture - 1897 - 592 pages
...English authority, " with which Americans have been accustomed to regard it, since it ranks above every written constitution for the intrinsic excellence...simplicity, brevity and precision of its language, and its judicious mixture of definiteness in principle with elasticity in details." There is no feature... | |
| Edward Cornelius Toune, Graeme Mercer Adam - 1897 - 692 pages
...English authority, " with which Americans have been accustomed to regard it, since it ranks above every written constitution for the intrinsic excellence...simplicity, brevity and precision of its language, and its judicious mixture of definiteness in principle with elasticity in details." There is no feature... | |
| Richard Ellsworth Fast, Hu Maxwell - West Virginia - 1901 - 536 pages
...American Commonwealth," in which he says: "The constitution of 1789 . . . . after all deductions . . . . ranks above every other written constitution for the...mixture of definiteness in principle, with elasticity in detail." Each State has its own constitution framed in its essential principles upon the model of this... | |
| Salter Storrs Clark - United States - 1902 - 326 pages
...world has so honored : it has been a model for constitutions everywhere. An eminent Englishman says, ' It ranks above every other written constitution, for...simplicity, brevity, and precision of its language.' (Bryce.) We frequently hear it called the ' charter of our liberties.' Not a charter exactly, for that... | |
| Hélio Lobo - 1906 - 232 pages
...aquella que permanece acima de todas suas co-irmãs escriptas,pela sua insophismada excellencia — it ranks above every other written constitution for...scheme, its adaptation to the circumstances of the pcople, the simplicity, brevity, and precision of its language, its judicio us mixture of definiteness... | |
| Edwin Wilson Morse - United States - 1912 - 476 pages
...been justly looked upon as little short of marvellous. "Yet, after all deductions," says James Bryce, "it ranks above every other written constitution for...precision of its language, its judicious mixture of defmiteness in principle with elasticity in details." These results were not attained, however, without... | |
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