 | Hadley Arkes - Law - 1997 - 316 pages
...Maryland: "We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding." That Constitution was "intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs."3 This famous line of Marshall's would be enduringly invoked, in the years tocóme, by the... | |
 | Richard G. Stevens - History - 1997 - 410 pages
...with human rights to secure which governments are established. It is a constitution we are expounding, intended to endure for ages to come and consequently to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs.14 It can endure for ages precisely because its founders had the wisdom to make it broad and... | |
 | Andrew L. Kaufman - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 764 pages
...statement that "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."33 Cardozo clearly continued to believe strongly in the creative judicial function. His unpublished... | |
 | Scott Brewer - Law - 1998 - 400 pages
...expounding."229 Equally important is Marshall's insistence that the Constitution be interpreted so as to "endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of buman affairs."'"'i 1t has always been feared, though, that too much "adaptation" would mean not the... | |
 | Elliot E. Slotnick - Law - 1999 - 666 pages
...constitutionwe are expounding." Yes, it is indeed a constitution. But in Marshall's language, a constitution intended to endure for ages to come and consequently...be adapted to the various crises of human affairs. Marshall obviously has contrasted the Constitution with ordinary legal documents such as contracts... | |
 | Henry Julian Abraham - History - 1999 - 424 pages
...he saw them, always adhering to the following creed: "It is a constitution we are expounding . . . intended to endure for ages to come and, consequently to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs."18 Yet he hastened to add that "judicial power, as contradistinguished from the power of the... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 396 pages
...in the great McCulloch v. Maryland decision, that our laws were made under a Constitution that was "intended to endure for ages to come, and, consequently,...adapted to the various crises of human affairs'"? Probably not a single judge did more of this "adapting," and more incisively, than did Mr. Chief Justice... | |
 | Richard M Battistoni - Law - 2000 - 198 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. To have prescribed the means by which Government should, in all future time, execute its powers would... | |
 | Walter Lippmann - Political Science - 1970 - 376 pages
...Marshall actually wrote was: "We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding . . . intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently...be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." Evidently the quotation marks were misplaced. [AS, jr.] One public benefit has already accrued from... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall - Law - 2000 - 390 pages
...that Marshall speaks in his classic, and often misunderstood, statement that the Constitution was "... intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs."15 The adaptation of which he spoke was a result of the breadth or generality of the language... | |
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This provision is made in a constitution intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs. 
