 | Electronic journals - 1917 - 914 pages
...passed in 1907. * "Time works changes, brings into existence new conditions and purposes. Therefore a principle to be vital must be capable of wider application than the mischief which gave it birth." McKenna, J., in Weems t>. United States, 217 US 349, 373. "But the provisions of the Constitution are... | |
 | Connecticut. Office of the Attorney General - Attorneys general's opinions - 1913 - 296 pages
...theretofore taken. Time works changes, brings into existence new conditions and purposes. Therefore a principle, to be vital, must be capable of wider...it birth. This is peculiarly true of constitutions. They are not ephemeral enactments, designed to meet passing occasions. They are, to use the words of... | |
 | Thomas James Norton - Constitutional history - 1922 - 332 pages
...the infliction of cruel and unusual punishment, adopting this provision from our Constitution. The Supreme Court of the United States held (1910) that...clause. ARTICLE IX. The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.162 162... | |
 | Thomas James Norton - Constitutional history - 1922 - 332 pages
...the infliction of cruel and unusual punishment, adopting this provision from our Constitution. The Supreme Court of the United States held (1910) that...clause. ARTICLE IX. The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.162 162... | |
 | Thomas James Norton - Constitutional history - 1922 - 308 pages
...conditions. "Therefore," said the Court, "a principle to be vital must be capable of wider applicatibn than the mischief which gave it birth. This is peculiarly...clause. ARTICLE IX. The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.162 162... | |
 | Harry Hamilton Laughlin - 1922 - 544 pages
...theretofore taken. Time works changes, brings into existence new conditions and purposes. Therefore a principle, to be vital, must be capable of wider...it birth. This is peculiarly true of constitutions. They are not ephemeral enactments, designed to meet passing occasions. They are, to use the words of... | |
 | John William Davis - Constitutions - 1925 - 60 pages
...conviction of the soundness of their principles, they also knew, as the Supreme Court has said, that "A principle to be vital must be capable of wider...birth. This is peculiarly true of constitutions." This adaptability of the Constitution was not long in proving itself. When President Jefferson was... | |
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Time works changes, brings into existence new conditions and purposes. Therefore a principle to be vital must be capable of wider application than the mischief which gave it birth. 
