But a constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it. Its course cannot always be tranquil. It is exposed to storms and tempests, and its framers must be unwise statesmen,... Annual Report of the Illinois State Bar Association - Page 32by Illinois State Bar Association - 1896Full view - About this book
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1821 - 738 pages
...cases should be final ! These collisions may take place in times of no extraordinary commotion. But a constitution is framed for ages to come, and is...it, as far as its nature will permit, with the means of self-preservation from the perils it may be destined to encounter. No government ought to be so... | |
| 1821 - 438 pages
...cases should be tinal. These collisions may take place in times of no extraordinary commotion. Hut a constitution is framed for ages to come, and is...approach immortality as nearly as human institutions van approach it. Its course cannot always be tranquil. It is exposed to storms and tempests, and its... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 564 pages
...motion. But a constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality, na nearly as human institutions can approach it. Its...it, as far as its nature will permit, with the means of selfpreservation from the perils it may be destined to encounter. No government ought to be so defective... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 540 pages
...violate their respective constitutional authorities." In the first instance, if this should motion. But a constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality, ns nearly as human institutions can approach it. Its course cannot always be tranquil. It is exposed... | |
| Henry Baldwin - Constitutional law - 1837 - 236 pages
...declared it to have been intended by its framers, to endure for ages to come; I Wh. 326; 4 Wh. 415; and designed to approach immortality, as nearly as human institutions can approach it. 6 Wh. 387. A law of supreme obligation, made for the purposes it declares, Ib. 381; by enlightened... | |
| John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...cases should be final! These collisions may take place in times of no extraordinary commotion. [But a constitution is framed for ages to come, and is...it, as far as its nature will permit, with the means of self-preservation from the perils it may be destined to encounter. (_No government ought to be so... | |
| Henry St. George Tucker - Constitutional law - 1843 - 254 pages
...cases should be final ! " These collisions may take place in times of no extraordinary commotion. But a constitution is framed for ages to come, and is...it, as far as its nature will permit, with the means of self-preservation from the perils it may be destined to encounter. No government ought to be so... | |
| Maryland. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1851 - 620 pages
...it. What, sir, is a Constitution ? Why is it pro-! per to have one? Chief Justice Marshall has said "a Constitution is framed for ages to come, and is...immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach." — [6 Wheaton, 384 Cohen on Virginia.] But if this assemblage can convene at one time, it can at another.... | |
| American essays - 1889 - 876 pages
...Constitution except as far as it shall be sanctioned by the latter." Mr. Chief Justice Marshall affirms : "A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as mortality can approach it. Its course cannot always be tranquil. It is exposed to storms and tempest,... | |
| Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1859 - 560 pages
..."Those collisions may take place in times of no extraordinary commotion. But a Constitution is formed for ages to come and is designed to approach immortality...tempests, and its framers must be unwise statesmen if they have not provided it, as far as its nature will permit, with the means of self preservation... | |
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