 | Alfred Maurice Low - 1918 - 324 pages
...principle"; and again in the same book: "The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyer's document : it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. . . . Life is always your last and most authoritative critic." Nor did he subscribe to the sanctity... | |
 | Alfred Maurice Low - 1918 - 314 pages
...principle"; and again in the same book: "The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyer's document : it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. . . . Life is always your last and most authoritative critic." Nor did he subscribe to the sanctity... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - Presidents - 1919 - 266 pages
...and less and less an executive officer. THE Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyer's document : it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. THERE have been periods of our history when presidential messages were utterly without practical significance.... | |
 | Social sciences - 1921 - 760 pages
...precisely denned, but must remain somewhat vague and uncertain. "The Constitution," says President Wilson, "is not a mere lawyers' document: it is a vehicle...life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. ' ' 2 That statement is particularly true of that portion of the Constitution dealing with the war... | |
 | James Kerr Pollock - United States - 1927 - 384 pages
...the spirit of the Constitution that he should have refused to respect and execute decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, and no serious...the Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyer's document: it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. Its prescriptions... | |
 | 1921 - 776 pages
...precisely defined, but must remain somewhat vague and uncertain. "The Constitution," says President Wilson, "is not a mere lawyers' document: it is a vehicle...life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. ' ' 2 That statement is particularly true of that portion of the Constitution dealing with the war... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1938 - 268 pages
...spent by our forefathers. Our Constitution is always in the making, for as Woodrow Wilson said: "It is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of...life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age." . COOPERATION BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS Address prepared by Robert H. Jackson, Assistant Attorney... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1938 - 130 pages
...spent by our forefathers. Our Constitution is always in the making, for as Woodrow Wilson said: "It is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of...life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age." COOPERATION BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS Address prepared by Robert H. Jackson, Assistant Attorney... | |
 | Henry Steele Commager - History - 1950 - 504 pages
...more audacious successor. "The Constitution," he said, in words that Franklin Roosevelt was to echo, "is not a mere lawyers' document ; it is a vehicle...life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age." It was not meant to hold the government back to the time of horses and wagons, the time when postboys... | |
 | Administrative law - 1972 - 314 pages
...Proclamation The Constitution of the United States, as Woodrow Wilson observed early in this century, "is not a mere lawyers' document: it is a vehicle...life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age." To each new generation of American citizens, this lesson comes afresh. To the young of today, it has... | |
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But the Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document: it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. 
