 | Europe - 1811 - 584 pages
...incoherent that they cannot be understood: if they be repealed or revised, before they are promulged, or undergo such incessant changes, that no man who...that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed? " Another effect of public instability, is the unreasonable advantage it gives to the sagacious, the... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1817 - 570 pages
...incoherent that they cannot be understood : if they be repealed or revised before they are promulged, or undergo such incessant changes, that no man who...that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed ? Another effect of public instability, is the unreasonable advantage it gives to the sagacious, the... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1818 - 882 pages
...incoherent that they cannot be understood : if they be repealed or revised before they are promulged, or undergo such incessant changes, that no man who...that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed. Another effect of public instability, is the unreasonable advantage it gives to the sagacious, the... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1837 - 516 pages
...incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulged, or undergo such incessant changes, that no man, who...that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed ? Another effect of public instability is the unreasonable advantage it gives to the sagacious, the... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1857 - 504 pages
...incoterent that they cannot be understood ; if they be repealed or revised before they are proriiulged, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the* law is to-day, can guress what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action : but how can that.be a rule,... | |
 | Henry Barton Dawson - Constitutional law - 1863 - 770 pages
...incoherent that they cannot be understood ; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulged, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who...what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-ruorrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action ; but how can that be a rule, which is little known,... | |
 | United States - 1864 - 786 pages
...incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulged, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who...that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed ? Another effect of public instability is the unreasonable advantage it gives to the sagacious, the... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1864 - 772 pages
...incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulged, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who...be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed? Another effect of public instability is the unreasonable advantage it gives to the sagacious, the enterprising,... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1864 - 850 pages
...incoherent that they cannot be understood : if they be repealed or revised before they are promulged, or undergo such incessant changes, that no man who...but how can that be a rule, which is little known ajjtl less fixed ? Another effect of public instability, is the unreasonable advantage it gives to... | |
 | 1865 - 696 pages
...incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulged, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who...that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed ? Another effect of public instability is the unreasonable advantage it gives to the sagacious, the... | |
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated,... 
