 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. It would have been an unwise attempt to provide,...  A Political Manual for 1866 [to 1870] - Page 520by Edward McPherson - 1870Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...execute its powers, would have been to change, entirely, the character of the instrument, and give it the properties of a legal code. It would have been...exigencies which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can be best provided for as they occur. To have declared that the best means... | |
 | 1819 - 660 pages
...execute its powers, would have been to change, entirely, the character of the instrument, and give it the properties of a legal code. It would have been...attempt to provide, by immutable rules, for exigencies when, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can be best provided for as they occur.... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1832 - 590 pages
...be appropriate and conducive to the end, would he most unwise and pernicious, because it would be an attempt to provide by immutable rules for exigencies, which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and would deprive the legislature of the capacity to avail itself of experience, or to... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 540 pages
...time, execute its powers, would have been to change entirely the character of the instrument, and give it the properties of a legal code. It would have been...exigencies, which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can be best provided for, as they occur. To have declared, that the best means... | |
 | James Asheton Bayard - 1834 - 198 pages
...appropriate, and conducive to the end, would have been most unwise, and pernicious ; because, it would be an attempt to provide, by immutable rules, for exigencies, which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly ; and would deprive the legislature of the capacity to avail itself of experience, or to... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...been to change entirely the character of the instrument, and give it the properties of a legal codeV} It would have been an unwise attempt to provide, by...exigencies which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can be best provided for as they occur. To have declared that the best means... | |
 | William Alexander Duer - Constitutional law - 1843 - 436 pages
...time, execute its powers, would have changed entirely the character of the Constitution, and given it the properties of a legal code. It would have been...an unwise attempt to provide by immutable rules for cases which, if foreseen at all, must have been perceived indistinctly, and which could have been better... | |
 | Child rearing - 1845 - 436 pages
...time, execute its powers, would have changed entirely the character of the Constitution, and given it the properties of a legal code. It would have been...an unwise attempt to provide by immutable rules for cases which, if foreseen at all, must have been perceived indistinctly, and which could*have been better... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1851 - 706 pages
...be appropriate and conducive to the end, would be most unwise and pernicious, because it would be an attempt to provide by immutable rules for exigencies, which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and would deprive the legislature of the capacity to avail itself of experience, or to... | |
 | Charles Bishop Goodrich - United States - 1853 - 364 pages
...future time execute its powers, would have been to change entirely the character of the instrument. It would have been an unwise attempt to provide by...exigencies which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can be best provided for as they occur.* * McCullock v. The State of Maryland,... | |
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