 | United States. Supreme Court - 1918 - 1574 էջ
...control all individuals or governments within the American territory." He added, in the same case: "A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as near as mortality can approach it. Its course cannot always be tranquil. It is exposed to storms and... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 1919 - 744 էջ
..."— Marshall's opinion is an address to the American people — The grandeur of certain passages: "A Constitution is framed for ages to come and is designed to approach immortality"—The Constitution is vitalized by a "conservative power" within it — Independence of... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1922 - 46 էջ
...executive, and judicial. The Constitution was framed not fur a day but ''for ages to come, and was designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it." From a delegated power and an imposed duty to take a creative step in the organization of a government... | |
 | Harry Hamilton Laughlin - 1922 - 550 էջ
...enactments, designed to meet passing occasions. They are, to use the words of Chief Justice Marshall, 'designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.' The future is their care, and provision for events of good and bad tendencies of which no prophecy... | |
 | California Bar Association - 1913 - 384 էջ
...events of which were locked up in the inscrutable purposes of Providence." (13) Said Marshall : "P"t. a constitution is framed for ages to come, and is...unwise statesmen indeed, if they have not provided it, so far as its nature will permit, with the means of self-preservation from the perils it may be destined... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1928 - 970 էջ
...executive, and judicial. The Constitution was framed not for a day, but " for ages to comer and was designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it." (Cohens v. Virginia, C Wheaton, 387.) From a delegated power and an imposed duty to take a creative... | |
 | 1889 - 874 էջ
...Constitution except as far as it shall be sanctioned by the latter." Mr. Chief Justice Marshall affirms : "A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as mortality can approach it. Its course cannot always be tranquil. It is exposed to storms and tempest,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1934 - 360 էջ
...independence may not exist * * *. "These collisions may take place in times of no extraordinary commotion. But a constitution is framed for ages to come and is designed...immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it. * * * No government ought to be so defective in its organization as not to contain within itself the... | |
 | American Bar Association - 1917 - 988 էջ
...Bank i)s. Deveaux, 5 Cranch. 87. To quote from him again in Cohen vs. Virginia, 6 Wheaton 387: "The constitution is framed for ages to come and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as hnman institutions can approach it." The Supreme Court, speaking through Mr. Justice Holmes, has said... | |
 | Illinois State Bar Association - 1896 - 762 էջ
...that some men doubted; some doubted the perpetuity of the Republic. Listen to the words of Marshall: "A constitution is framed for ages to come and is...it as far as its nature will permit with the means for self-preservation from the perils it may be destined to encounter. * * * The people made the constitution... | |
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But a constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it. Its course cannot always be tranquil. It is exposed to storms and tempests, and its framers must be unwise statesmen... 
