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| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1816 - 576 pages
...execution. It was foreseen that this • would be a perilous and difficult, if not an impracticable, task. The instrument was not intended to provide merely...in the inscrutable purposes of Providence. It could no* be foreseen what new changes and modifications of power might be indispensable to effectuate the... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...execution. It was foreseen, that it would be a perilous, and difficult, if not an impracticable task. The instrument was not intended to provide merely...lapse of ages, the events of which were locked up in_the inscrutable purposes of Providence. It could not be foreseen, what new changes and modifications... | |
| United States - Session laws - 1845 - 816 pages
...perilous and difficult, if not an impracticable task. The instrument was not intended merely to provide for the exigencies of a few years, but was to endure...what new changes and modifications of power might be made indispensable to effectuate the general objecte of the charter; and restrictions and specifications... | |
| United States - Law - 1850 - 886 pages
...and difficult, if not an impracticable task. The instrument was not intended merely to provide tor the exigencies of a few years, but was to endure through...what new changes and modifications of power might be made indispensable to effectuate the general objects of the charter; and restrictiont and specifications... | |
| Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 834 pages
...into execution. lt was foreseen that it would be perilous and difficult, if not an impracticable task. The instrument was not intended to provide merely...for the exigencies of a few years, but was to endure for a lapse of ages, the events of which were locked up in the incontrovertible purposes of providence.... | |
| Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 770 pages
...execution. It was foreseen that this would be a perilous and difficult, if not an impracticable task. The instrument was not intended to provide merely...exigencies of a few years, but was to endure through a long lapsa of ages, the events of which were locked up in the inscrutable purposes of Providence. It could... | |
| Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 836 pages
...execution. It was forseen that that would be a perilous and difficult if not an impracticable task. The instrument was not intended to provide merely...events of which were locked up in the inscrutable parposes of Providence. It could not be foreseen what new changes and modifications of power might... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1861 - 704 pages
...discord. "The instrument was not intended to provide Commonwealth of Ky. v. Dennison, Governor, &c. merely for the exigencies of a few years, but was to endure through a lapse of ages, the events of which were locked up in the inscrutable purposes of Providence. * * *... | |
| Samuel Sullivan Cox - History - 1865 - 486 pages
...to withdraw was started, considered, and abandoned ; worse than rejected." Judge Marshall says : " The instrument was not intended to provide merely...events of which were locked up in the inscrutable decrees of Providence." It was, therefore, provided with means for its own amendment. By the Legislatures... | |
| 1865 - 730 pages
...execution. It was foreseen that this would be a perilous and difficult, -if not Hn impracticable task. The instrument was not intended to provide merely for the exigencies of u lew years, but was to endure through a long lapse of ages, the events of which were locked up in... | |
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