 | United States - Law - 1918 - 1192 pages
...adapted to meet new conditions and circumstances, it was said in an early case by Justice Story: " The Constitution unavoidably deals in general language....which those powers should be carried into execution. Tt was foreseen that this would be a perilous and difficult, if not an impracticable, task. The instrument... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 1574 pages
...leaving the filling up to be deduced from the outlines. In Martin v. Hunter, 1 Wheat. 321!, it waa said: "The Constitution unavoidably deals in general language, it did not suit the purpose of the people in framing this great charter of eur liberties to provide for minute specifications... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - United States - 1921 - 650 pages
...every other grant, is to have a reasonable construction, according to the import of its terms. . . . The Constitution unavoidably deals in general language....to provide for minute specifications of its powers. . . . [It] was not intended to provide merely for the exigencies of a few years, but was to endure... | |
 | North American review - 1924 - 924 pages
...the inaccuracy of his statements. Mr. Justice Story is a safer and truer guide. This is what he said: The Constitution unavoidably deals in general language....It was foreseen that this would be a perilous and difficult, if not an impracticable, task. The instrument was not intended to provide merely for the... | |
 | United States - Constitutional amendments - 1924 - 936 pages
...is adapted to meet new conditions and circumstances, it was said in an early case by Justice Story : The Constitution unavoidably deals in general language....It was foreseen that this would be a perilous and difficult, if not an impracticable, task. The instrument was not intended to provide merely for the... | |
 | Charles Willis Needham - Commerce - 1925 - 772 pages
...leaving the filling up to be deduced from the outlines. In Martin v. Hunter, 1 Wheaton, 326, it was said, "The Constitution unavoidably deals in general language. It did not suit the purpose of the people in framing this great charter of our liberties to provide for minute specifications... | |
 | James Francis Lawson - Constitutional history - 1926 - 408 pages
...enlarged. The Constitution unavoidably deals in general language. It did not suit . .\i '. the purpose of the people, in framing this great charter of our...It was foreseen that this would be a perilous and difficult, if not an impracticable. task.N The instrument was not intended to provide merely for the... | |
 | Charles Ellewyin George - Banking law - 1927 - 444 pages
...is adapted to meet new conditions and circumstances, as was said in an early case by Justice Story : "The Constitution unavoidably deals in general language....It was foreseen that this would be a perilous and difficult, if not an impracticable, task. The instrument was not intended to provide merely for the... | |
 | California Bar Association - Bar associations - 1912 - 226 pages
...observed by the Supreme Court in Hunter v. Martin, 1 Wheat. 304, 326-27, ner Chief Justice Marshall, that "the Constitution unavoidably deals in general language....great charter of our liberties to provide for minute specification of its powers, or to declare the means by which those powers should be carried into execution.... | |
 | California Bar Association - Bar associations - 1912 - 602 pages
...charter of our liberties to provide for minute specification of its powers, or to declare the means liy which those powers should be carried- into execution. It was foreseen that it would be a perilous and difficult, if not an impracticable task. The instrument was not intended... | |
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The Constitution unavoidably deals in general language. It did not suit the purposes of the people, in framing this great charter of our liberties, to provide for minute specifications of its powers, or to declare the means by which those powers should... 
