 A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and of all the means by which they may be carried into execution, would partake of the prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced...  A Handbook of Politics for 1868 [to 1894] - Էջ 54Edward McPherson - 1872Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | James Boyd White - 1985 - 400 էջ
...which they may be carried into execution, would partake of the prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. It would probably...deduced from the nature of the objects themselves. That this idea was entertained by the framers of the American constitution, is not only to be inferred... | |
 | Grenada. Constitution Review Commission - 1986 - 150 էջ
...which they may be carried into execution, would partake of the prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind... It would...deduced from the nature of the objects themselves." (McCullough v. Maryland (4 Wheat. 316 at 407 (1819)). The Grenada Constitution's provisions on fundamental... | |
 | Bernard H. Siegan - 232 էջ
...by which they may be carried into execution, would partake of a prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. It would probably...objects designated, and the minor ingredients which composed those objects be deduced from the nature of the objects themselves. ... In considering this... | |
 | Diane D. Blair - 1988 - 396 էջ
...best organized groups. CHAPTER SEVEN The Constitution: Provisions and Politics A constitution . . . requires that only its great outlines should be marked, its important objects designated. Chief Justice John Marshall, 1819 All affidavits of Registration shall be made and executed in quadruplicate,... | |
 | Yôrām Dinšṭein, Mala Tabory - 1989 - 1108 էջ
...Marshall referred at first to purposes or "objects". The nature of the constitution requires he said, "that only its great outlines should be marked, its...deduced from the nature of the objects themselves". But subsequently he linked the process of implication to powers. An implied power must be "incidental... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1989 - 778 էջ
...which they may be carried into execution, would partake of the prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. It would probably never be understood by the public." This, unhappily, has been the fate of a great many state constitutions. To start down the road of adding... | |
 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Howard Dickman - 1990 - 360 էջ
..."nature" of the Constitution, said Marshall, requires that it avoid "the prolixity of a legal code," its "great outlines should be marked, its important objects designated, and the main ingredients which compose those objects deduced from the nature of the objects themselves." 87... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - 1906 - 774 էջ
...which it may be carried into execution, would partake of the prolixity of a political code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. It would probably...deduced from the nature of the objects themselves." In Martin v. Hunter, 1 Wheat, 326, Mr. Justice Story, in delivering the opinion of the Court, said:... | |
 | Joseph Goldstein Sterling Professor of Law Yale University Law School - 1992 - 225 էջ
...the prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. It probably would never be understood by the public. Its nature, therefore,...objects be deduced from the nature of the objects themselves.3 Stressing the simple-understandable-language and the great-outline characteristics of... | |
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