 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...  Niles' National Register - Page 671819Full view - About this book
 | Diane D. Blair - Political Science - 1988 - 396 pages
...best organized groups. CHAPTER SEVEN The Constitution: Provisions and Politics A constitution . . . requires that only its great outlines should be marked, its important objects designated. Chief Justice John Marshall, 1819 All affidavits of Registration shall be made and executed in quadruplicate,... | |
 | Joseph Goldstein Sterling Professor of Law Yale University Law School - Law - 1992 - 225 pages
...must keep in mind about it, the Court said: A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit,...and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. It probably would never be understood by the public. Its nature, therefore, requires, that only its great... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 774 pages
...Wheat. 407, Mr. Chief Justice Marshall said: "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 it may be carried into execution, would partake of the prolixity of a political code, and could scarcely... | |
 | Roger Simonds - Jurisprudence - 1995 - 322 pages
...shall be expressly and minutely described. A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit,...and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. ..1ts nature, therefore, requires, that only its great outlines should be marked, its important objects... | |
 | Roger Simonds - Jurisprudence - 1995 - 322 pages
...shall be expressly and minutely described. A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit,...code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind...Its nature, therefore, requires, that only its great outlines should be marked, its important... | |
 | Matthias Jestaedt - Law - 1999 - 456 pages
...sich auf S. 602); vgl. auch aaO, S. 601 : »A constitution, to contain an aceurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit,...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... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 396 pages
...Wheaton 3 t6, 4l5. H.4 Whea ton 3l6, 4l8. A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit,...and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. lt would, probably, never be understood by the public. lts nature, therefore, requires that only its... | |
 | Eric Stein - History - 2000 - 420 pages
...Justice Marshall had to say on this subject: A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit,...they may be carried into execution, would partake on the prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. It would probably... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall - Law - 2000 - 390 pages
...with ample means for their execution.' Were the Constitution 'to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit,...means by which they may be carried into execution, [it] would partake of the prolixity of a legal cude.' When MeCulloch came under attack he leapi to... | |
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