 | 1912 - 922 Seiten
...its meaning does not alter, and what it meant when adopted it means now. Being a grant of powers to a government, its language is general, and as changes...things to which they are in their nature applicable." (199 US 437, 448-9.) With the growth of international trade relations, immigration, and other forms... | |
 | Edward Samuel Corwin - 1914 - 204 Seiten
...at the 2Oth annual meeting of the Lake Mohawk Conference on International Arbitration, May 28, 1914. its language is general, and as changes come in social...generation to all things to which they are in their nature applicable."2 With the growth of international trade relations, immigration, and other forms of international... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - 1915 - 508 Seiten
...meaning does not alter. That which it meant when adopted it means now. Being a grant of powers to a government its language is general, and as changes...which they are in their nature applicable. This in no manner abridges the fact of its changeless nature and meaning. Those things which are within its grants... | |
 | William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich - 1915 - 1240 Seiten
...been authoritatively stated that as changes come in social and political life the federal constitution embraces in its grasp all new conditions which are...things to which they are in their nature applicable.' It has also been said that a constitution is to be interpreted by the spirit which vivifies, and not... | |
 | United States - 1918 - 1192 Seiten
...meaning does not alter. That which it meant when adopted it means now. Being a grant of powers to a government its language is general, and as changes...which they are in their nature applicable. This in no manner abridges the fact of its changeless nature and meaning. Those things which are within its grants... | |
 | 1919 - 1884 Seiten
...meaning does not alter. That which it meant when adopted, it means now. Being a grant of powers to a government, its language is general, and, as changes...which they are in their nature applicable. This in no manner abridges the fact of its changeless nature and meaning. Those things which are within its grants... | |
 | James Brown Scott - 1919 - 572 Seiten
...not alter. DevelopThat which it meant when adopted it means now. Being a grant of powers to a ment of government its language is general, and as changes...which they are in their nature applicable. This in no manner abridges the fact of its changeless nature and meaning. Those things which are within its grants... | |
 | Sir John Quick - 1919 - 1048 Seiten
...Constitution. It cannot call a thing a trade mark which was not known as a trade mark in the year 1 900. Whilst the powers granted do not change, they apply from...to all things to which they are, in their nature, reasonably applicable: Per BREWER, J. in South Carolina v. The United States, 199 US, at p. 438. "... | |
 | James Brown Scott, United States. Supreme Court - 1919 - 572 Seiten
...alter. DevelopThat which it meant when adopted it means now. Being a grant of powers to a njent of government its language is general, and as changes come in social and political life stitution it embraces in its grasp all new conditions which are within the scope of the powers in terms... | |
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The Constitution is a written instrument. As such its meaning does not alter. That which it meant when adopted, it means now. Being a grant of powers to a government, its language is general, and, as changes come in social and political life, it embraces... 
