 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...  The Central Law Journal - Страница 1551916Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1918 - 1574 страници
...with singular clearness was it said bv Chief Justice Marshall, in McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheat. 405: "A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of...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 would scarcely... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - 1919 - 1228 страници
...powers will admit, and of all the means by which 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 be understood by the public. Its nature, therefore, requires that only its... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1977 - 134 страници
...Maryland, a constitution that attempted to detail all the subdivisions of its great powers would have the "prolixity of a legal code" and "could scarcely be embraced by the human mind.'' In any discussion of the legitimacy of a governmental procedure, one must of course be mindful of the... | |
 | James Boyd White - 1985 - 400 страници
...limit them? Marshall's answer depends on his characterization of the very nature of a constitution: A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all...and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. It would probably never be understood by the public. Its nature, therefore, requires, that only its... | |
 | Grenada. Constitution Review Commission - 1986 - 150 страници
...what all should perceive to be fundamentals. As the great American judge John Marshall once said : "A Constitution, to contain an accurate detail of...and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind... It would probably never be understood by the public. Its nature, therefore, requires that only its... | |
 | Bernard H. Siegan - 232 страници
...ratification debates — a fact that is revealed in the following excerpts from McCulloch v. Maryland. 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1989 - 778 страници
...contrast, as Marshall also observed, a constitution drawn "to contain an accurate detail of all of the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit,...and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. It would probably never be understood by the public." This, unhappily, has been the fate of a great... | |
 | Joseph Goldstein Sterling Professor of Law Yale University Law School - 1992 - 225 страници
...what the justices as the expositors of the Constitution must keep in mind about it, the Court said: A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all...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... | |
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