To have prescribed the means by which government should, in all future time, execute its powers, would have been to change, entirely, the character of the instrument, and give it the properties of a legal code. Niles' National Register - 第 67 頁1819完整檢視 - 關於此書
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs (1789-1975) - 1973 - 716 頁
...constitution intended to endure for ages to come, and, consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs. To have prescribed the means by...attempt to provide, by immutable rules, for exigencies which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can best be provided for as they occur.... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1973 - 360 頁
...constitution, intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs. To have prescribed the means by...time, execute its powers, would have been ... [to give the Constitution] the properties of a legal code. (149) Manifestly this is merely a plea for some... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1977 - 152 頁
...governmental procedure, one must of course be mindful of the cautionary words of the great Chief Justice. "To have prescribed the means by which government should, in all future time, execute its powers." he wrote. ". . . would have been an unwise attempt to provide, by immutable rules, for exigencies which,... | |
| Bernard H. Siegan - 232 頁
...constitution intended to endure for ages to come, and, consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs. To have prescribed the means by...attempt to provide, by immutable rules, for exigencies which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can be best provided for as they occur.... | |
| Charles F. Wilkinson - 1987 - 244 頁
...endure for ages to come, and, consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs. ... It would have been an unwise attempt to provide, by immutable rules, for exigencies which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can be best provided for as they occur.... | |
| Harold Hongju Koh - 1990 - 356 頁
..."what Congress has been attempting to do with the president's powers under the Constitution . . . [is] 'to change, entirely, the character of the instrument, and give it the properties of a legal code.' . . . [T]he War Powers Act . . . serves no useful purpose . . . [except to] weaken the presidency and... | |
| Katy Jean Harriger - 1992 - 288 頁
...Constitution was intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs. To have prescribed the means by...attempt to provide, by immutable rules, for exigencies which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can be best provided for as they occur.50... | |
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