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" 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... "
Speech of James Madison Porter ...: In the Convention of Pennsylvania, on ... - Page 29
by James Madison Porter - 1837 - 59 pages
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Niles' National Register, Volume 16

1819 - 660 pages
...the articles of confederation, and probably omitted it to avoid those embarrassments. 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...
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A View of the Constitution of the United States of America

William Rawle - Law - 1825 - 438 pages
...which compose those objects, be deduced from the nature of the objects themselves. If it contained 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, it would partake of the prolixity of...
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A Brief Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: With an ...

James Asheton Bayard - 1834 - 198 pages
...ingredients which compose those objects be deduced from the nature of the objects themselves. If it contained 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 ; it would partake of the prolixity of...
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A General View of the Origin and Nature of the Constitution and Government ...

Henry Baldwin - Constitutional law - 1837 - 236 pages
...judicially, no one can fail to be impressed with the truth and force of his remarks. " 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...
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A General View of the Origin and Nature of the Constitution and Government ...

Henry Baldwin - Constitutional history - 1837 - 230 pages
...judicially, no one can fail to be impressed with the truth and force of his remarks. " 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...
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The New-York review [ed. by F.L. Hawks]. Wanting no.6,8, Volume 2

Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 pages
...of Confederation, excludes incidental or implied powers. The Constitution did not attempt to go into an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers would admit, and of all the means by which they may be carried into execution. That would have made...
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The Writings of John Marshall, Late Chief Justice of the United States, Upon ...

John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...articles of confederation, and probably omitted it to avoid those embarrassments. • 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...
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De Bow's Commercial Review of the South & West, Volume 3

James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - Industries - 1847 - 640 pages
...present. In the case of McCulloch, vs. the State of Maryland, Judge Marshall s:tiil : " A constitution, lo contain an accurate detail of all the' subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and of all the means by which ihey may be carried into execution, would partake of the prolixity of a legal...
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Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in ..., Volume 228

Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 710 pages
...Marshall, in McCulloch v. State of Maryland, 4 Wheat. (17 US) 316, says (p. 407): "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...
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Constitutional Law: Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States ...

United States. Supreme Court - Banks and banking - 1863 - 76 pages
...the articles of confederation, and probably omitted it to avoid those embarrassments. 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...
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