...1апкиак*> should not, therefore, be necessarily confined to the form that evil had theretofore taken ... [A] principle to be vital must be capable of wider application than the mis chief which gave it birth." 217 US 349. Я73 (1910) (emphasis added). parent from a textual analysis...

...theretofore taken. 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." Weems v. United States, 217 US, at 373. It was almost 80 years before this Court had occasion to refer...

...to our liberties : Time works changes, brings into existence new conditions and purposes. Therefore a principle to be vital must be capable of wider application...it birth. This is peculiarly true of constitutions. They are not ephmeral enactments, designed to meet passing occasions. They are, to use the words of...

...theretofore taken. Time works changes, brings into existence new conditions and purposes. Therefore a principle to be vital must be capable of wider application...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...

...existence new conditions and purposes. Therefore a principle to be vital must be capable of widen- application than the mischief which gave 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...

...the Amendment has been interpreted in a flexible and dynamic manner. The Court early recognized that "a principle to be vital must be capable of wider...application than the mischief which gave it birth." Weems v. United States, 217 US 349, 373 ( 1910) . Thus the Clause forbidding "cruel and unusual" punishments...

...the Amendment has been interpreted in a flexible and dynamic manner. The Court early recognized that "a principle to be vital must be capable of wider...application than the mischief which gave it birth." Weems v. United States, 217 US 349, 373 ( 1910) . Thus the Clause forbidding "cruel and unusual" punishments...

...memorable words: "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. This is particularly true of constitutions. They are not ephemeral enactments, designed to meet passing occasions....

...changes, brings into existence new conditions and purposes. * * * Therefore, the principal in order to be vital must be capable of wider application than the mischief which gave it birth * * * anyone ought to speculate the progress of science in furnishing the government with means of...

...will stick to a distinction between the meaning of a rule and the instances of its application. 33. "[A] principle to be vital must be capable of wider...application than the mischief which gave it birth." Weems v. United States, 217 US 349, 373 (1910), quoted in Gregg v. Georgia, 428 US 153, 171 (1976)...