| American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1917 - 988 pages
...Bank i)s. Deveaux, 5 Cranch. 87. To quote from him again in Cohen vs. Virginia, 6 Wheaton 387: "The constitution is framed for ages to come and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as hnman institutions can approach it." The Supreme Court, speaking through Mr. Justice Holmes, has said... | |
| Illinois State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1896 - 762 pages
...that some men doubted; some doubted the perpetuity of the Republic. Listen to the words of Marshall: "A constitution is framed for ages to come and is...it as far as its nature will permit with the means for self-preservation from the perils it may be destined to encounter. * * * The people made the constitution... | |
| Kentucky State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1912 - 296 pages
...President, he made his speech at Harrisburg. Chief Justice Marshall, as you will recall, long ago said that "a constitution is framed for ages to come, and is...as nearly as human institutions can approach it." Throughout our history, the people as a whole have regarded and revered the Constitution of the United... | |
| Administrative law - 1994 - 944 pages
...Philadelphia remains the fundamental law of our land. Chief Justice Marshall wrote that the Constitution was "designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it." Our Constitution is by far the oldest written framework for government in existence. The extraordinary... | |
| United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy - Nuclear energy - 1956 - 935 pages
...public interests, should require. (Martin, v. Hunter (1816) 1 Wheat. 304, 326, Justice Story.) * * * But a constitution is framed for ages to come, and is...unwise statesmen indeed, if they have not provided it, so far as its nature will permit, with the means of self-preservation from the perils it may be destined... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1968 - 1834 pages
...struggle. And in the words of Chief Justice Marshall, they were secured "for ages to come, and . . . designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it," Cohens v. Virginia, 6 Wheat. 264, 387 (1821). Over 70 years ago, our predecessors on this Court eloquently... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1968 - 1332 pages
...struggle. And in the words of Chief Justice Marshall, they were secured "for ages to come, and . . . designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it," Cohens v. Virginia, 6 Wheat. 264, 387 (1821). Over 70 years ago, our predecessors on this Court eloquently... | |
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