| Criminal law - 1905 - 1240 pages
...knows what the law is to-d«y can guess what it will be to-morrow. The law is defined to bo a nil-- of action, but how can that be a rule which is little known or less fixed ? " Ono of the greatest burdens of responsibility laid upon the judiciary, state and... | |
| EDWARD GAYLORD ROURNE - 1913 - 346 pages
...incoherent that they cannot be understood ; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who...law is today, can guess what it will be to-morrow" (p. 340). "Another effect of public instability is the unreasonable advantage it gives to the sagacious,... | |
| William Bennett Munro - United States - 1919 - 680 pages
...incoherent that they cannot be understood ; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who...law is to-day can guess what it will be to-morrow." But such safeguards as the constitution provides against law-making en gros have not proved effective.... | |
| William Bennett Munro - Citizenship - 1924 - 568 pages
...incoherent that they cannot be understood ; if they be repealed and revised before they are promulgated or undergo such incessant changes that no man who...law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow." The common law has at least the virtue of steadiness, which statutory law has not. Much has been written... | |
| California. Legislature. Assembly - California - 1901 - 1324 pages
...incoherent that they cannot be understood ; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who...be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed? " The wisdom of these observations of that eminent statesman will doubtlessly meet with your approval.... | |
| Alastair Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton, Harold C. Syrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1962 - 776 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...incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulged, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is to day can guess what it will be to morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that... | |
| Rene Albert Wormser, Rene Wormser - Law - 1972 - 628 pages
...incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who...law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow." ALEXANDER HAMILTON, IN THE FEDERALIST THE ADOPTION of the Articles of Confederation displeased many... | |
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