 | Edward A. Purcell - Political Science - 2007 - 311 pages
...emphasizing that the Constitution's provisions were both open-ended and general. Any effort to specify "an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit," Marshall wrote in McCulloch v. Maryland, would require "the prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely... | |
 | Albert P. Melone, Allan Karnes - Courts - 2008 - 724 pages
...this word in the articles of confederation, and probably omitted it to avoid those embarrassments. A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all...they may be carried into execution, would partake of a prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. It would probably never... | |
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A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and of all the means by which they may be carried into execution, would partake of the prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced... 
