 | Law - 1891 - 286 pages
...establish post offices and post roads, are not confined to the instrumentalities of commerce, or of the postal service known or in use when the Constitution was adopted, but keep pace with the progress of the country, and adapt themselves to the new developments of time and... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 964 pages
...operation, they should be under the protecting care of the national government. "The powers thus granted are not confined to the instrumentalities of commerce,...circumstances. They extend from the horse with its rider to the stage-coach, from the sailing vessel to the steamboat, from the coach and the steamboat to the railroad,... | |
 | United States-Puerto Rico Commission on the Status of Puerto Rico - Puerto Rico - 1966 - 590 pages
...Co., 96 US 9 (24 L. Ed. 708 (1878)) the Supreme Court said that the powers granted in the Constitution "keep pace with the progress of the country, and adapt...circumstances. They extend from the horse with its rider to the stagecoach, from the sailing vessel to the steamboat, from the coach and the steamboat to the railroad,... | |
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The powers thus granted are not confined to the instrumentali-ties of commerce, or the postal service known or in use when the constitution was adopted, but they keep pace with the progress of the country, and adapt themselves to the new developments... 
