 This provision is made in a constitution intended to endure for ages to come, and, consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs.  Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of the State of New York - Page 497by New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Samuel Hand, Edward Jordan Dimock, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - 1868Full view - About this book
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...in this case, we must never forget, as Chief Justice Marshall admonished, that the Constitution is "intended to endure for ages to come, and, consequently,...be adapted to the various crises of human affairs," and that "[i]ts means are adequate to its ends." 28 Cases do arise presenting questions which could... | |
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...beneficial execution. This could not be done by confiding the choice of means to such narrow limits as not to leave it in the power of Congress to adopt...human affairs. To have prescribed the means by which government should, in all future time, execute its powers, would have been to change, entirely, the... | |
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...beneficial execution. Tliis could not be done by confiding the choice of means to such narrow limits as not to leave it in the power of congress to adopt...come, and, consequently, to be adapted to the various criset of human affairs. To have prescribed the means by which government should, in all future time,... | |
 | 1819 - 652 pages
...pover of congres-s to adopt any which might be 'appropriate, »ud which were conducive to the end. Ttvs provision is made in a constitution intended to endure...consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of luimun aííairs. To have prescribed the means by which government should, in all future time, execute... | |
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...future time execute its power, and to confine the choice of means to such narrow limits as should not leave it in the power of Congress to adopt any which might be appropriate and conducive to the end, would he most unwise and pernicious, because it would be an attempt to provide... | |
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...beneficial execution. This could not be done by confiding the choice of means to such narrow limits, as not to leave it in the power of congress to adopt...adapted to the various crises of human affairs. To hnve prescribed the means, by which government should, in all future time, execute its powers, would... | |
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...beneficial execution. This could not be done by confiding the choice of means to such narrow limits as not to leave it in the power of congress to adopt...human affairs. To have prescribed the means by which government should in all future time execute its powers would have been to change entirely the character... | |
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...future time execute its power, and to confine the choice of means to such narrow limits as should not leave it in the power of congress to adopt any which might be appropriate and conducive to the end, would be most unwise and pernicious, because it would be an attempt to provide... | |
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