| Edward Samuel Corwin - Constitutional history - 1919 - 268 pages
...powers on which the welfare of a nation essentially depends." The provision occurs "in a Constitution intended to endure for ages to come and consequently...be adapted to the various crises of human affairs. " The purpose of the clause therefore is not to impair the right of Congress "to exercise its best... | |
| United States - 1919 - 300 pages
...powers on which the welfare of a nation essentially depends." The provision occurs "in a Constitution intended to endure for ages to come and consequently...be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." The purpose of the clause therefore is not to impair the right of Congress "to exercise its best judgment... | |
| United States - 1921 - 612 pages
...powers on which the welfare of a nation essentially depends." The provision occurs "in a Constitution intended to endure for ages to come and consequently...be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." The purpose of the clause therefore is not to impair the right of Congress "to exercise its best judgment... | |
| James Montgomery Beck - Constitutional history - 1924 - 358 pages
...expounders, Chief Justice Marshall, said, in one of his notable opinions, that the Constitution was — "intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently...be adapted to the various crises of human affairs. To have prescribed the means by which government should in all future times execute its powers would... | |
| Edward Samuel Corwin - Constitutional history - 1924 - 160 pages
...Constitution was ordained by the people and so was intended for their benefit; secondly, that it was "intended to endure for ages to come and, consequently,...be adapted to the various crises of human affairs;" and thirdly, that while the National Government is one of enumerated powers, it is sovereign as to... | |
| Charles Willis Needham - Commerce - 1925 - 772 pages
...might be appropriate, and which were conducive to the end. This provision is made in a constitution intended to endure for ages to come, and, consequently...be adapted to the various crises of human affairs. * * * The right to enforce the observance of law, by punishing its infraction, might be denied with... | |
| Dennis C. Mueller - Political Science - 1996 - 395 pages
...nature of the US Constitution than perhaps any other individual, claimed that the Constitution was "intended to endure for ages to come and consequently...be adapted to the various crises of human affairs" (quoted by Hodder-Williams, 1988, p. 79). Bruce Ackerman (1991) argues that major shifts in the Supreme... | |
| Christopher Wolfe - Law - 1996 - 246 pages
...in Blaisdeli. "We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding ... a constitution intended to endure for ages to come, and, consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs."27 But adaptation has come to mean much more than that. The notion of adaptation originally... | |
| United States - Constitutional law - 1992 - 52 pages
...A20;A25 Page 5 15-16 5-6 8 27 14-15 8 13 8,11,13, 15-16 3,13,22,23 5 29-30,32-33 "... a constitution, intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently,...be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." John Marshall At the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked, "What... | |
| Leonard W. Levy - Law - 462 pages
...in Article I, section 10, clause 2. They inserted the necessary and proper clause in a Constitution "intended to endure for ages to come, and, consequently,...be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." They intended Congress to have "ample means" for carrying its express powers into effect. The "narrow... | |
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