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' Weekly Register - Página 691819Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1989 - 778 páginas
...Marshall also observed, a constitution drawn "to contain an accurate detail of all of the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and of all the...would probably never be understood by the public." This, unhappily, has been the fate of a great many state constitutions. To start down the road of adding... | |
| Ellen Frankel Paul, Howard Dickman - 1990 - 360 páginas
..."nature" of the Constitution, said Marshall, requires that it avoid "the prolixity of a legal code," its "great outlines should be marked, its important objects designated, and the main ingredients which compose those objects deduced from the nature of the objects themselves." 87... | |
| Joseph Goldstein Sterling Professor of Law Yale University Law School - 1992 - 225 páginas
...about it, the Court said: A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and of all the...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 - 1906 - 774 páginas
...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 - 1995 - 322 páginas
...expressly and minutely described. A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and of all the...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 - 1995 - 322 páginas
...expressly and minutely described. A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and of all the...code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind...Its nature, therefore, requires, that only its great outlines should be marked, its important... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs - 1996 - 284 páginas
...avoid those embarrassments. A Constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit and of all the means...and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. Only its great outlines should be marked, its important objects designated, and the minor ingredients... | |
| Matthias Jestaedt - 1999 - 456 páginas
...vgl. auch aaO, S. 601 : »A constitution, to contain an aceurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and of all the...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 - 2000 - 396 páginas
...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 of all the...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 - 2000 - 420 páginas
...had to say on this subject: A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and of all the...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... | |
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