 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...  John Marshall: Complete Constitutional Decisions - Page 264by John Marshall - 1903 - 799 pagesFull view - About this book
 | E. D. Hirsch - Education - 2007 - 197 pages
...contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and all the means by which they may be carried into execution,...legal code and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind."27 The knowledge that speech and writing takes for granted is recognized by the language community... | |
 | Edward A. Purcell - Political Science - 2007 - 311 pages
...subdivisions of which its great powers will admit," Marshall wrote in McCulloch v. Maryland, would require "the prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind." Instead, he explained, the founders understood that the very "nature" of the Constitution required... | |
 | Richard E. Ellis - Law - 2007 - 280 pages
...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 a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. It would probably never be understood... | |
 | Albert P. Melone, Allan Karnes - Courts - 2008 - 724 pages
...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 a prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. It would probably never... | |
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