 | Michael Meyerson - 2002 - 304 էջ
...turns out that they may have created a chaotic Constitution as well. 11 The Mathematics of Limits But a constitution is framed for ages to come, and is...immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it. — Chief Justice John Marshall Cohens v. Virginia 11821) D "avid Berlinski, in A Tour of the Calculus,... | |
 | Waleed Haider Malik, Carlos Larios Ochaita - 2002 - 112 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 provisions for events of good and bad tendencies of which no prophecy... | |
 | James F. Simon - 2003 - 356 էջ
...come, and is destined to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it." The framers "must be unwise statesmen indeed if they have not provided it, as far as nature will permit, with the means of self preservation from the perils it may be destined to encounter."... | |
 | Maryann Zihala - 2005 - 234 էջ
...struggle. And in the words of Chief Justice Marshall, they were secured "for ages to come, and . . . designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it," Cohens v. Virginia, 6 Wheat. 264 (1821) Our holding will be spelled out with some specificity in the... | |
 | Joseph Story - 2005 - 1408 էջ
...cases should be final ! " These collisions may take place in times of no extraordinary commotion. But a constitution is framed for ages to come, and is...statesmen indeed, if they have not provided it, as fer as its nature will permit, with the means of selfpreservation from the perils it may be destined... | |
 | Don Hawkinson - 2005 - 470 էջ
...progress of the nation, and therefore confine it to the establishment of broad and general principles. A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is...unwise statesmen indeed, if they have not provided it, asfar as its nature will permit, with the means of selfpreservation from the perils it may be destined... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 2005 - 705 էջ
...endure" — 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 appronch immortality" — The Constitution is vitalized by a "conservative power" within it — Independence... | |
 | Rebecca Stefoff - 2008 - 132 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... | |
 | Steven G. Calabresi - 2007 - 360 էջ
...enactments, designed to meet passing occasions. They are, to use the words of Chief Justice John Marshall, "designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it." The future is their care and provision or events of good and bad tendencies of which no prophesy can... | |
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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... 
