 | United States. Supreme Court, Henry Wheaton - Law reports, digests, etc - 1816 - 614 pages
...foreseen that this would be a perilous and difficult, if not an impracticable, task. The instrument was not intended to provide merely for the exigencies...locked up in the inscrutable purposes of Providence. It could not be foreseen what new changes and modifications of power might be indispensable to effectuate... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 782 pages
...foreseen, that it would be a perilous, and difficult, if not an impracticable task. The instrument was not intended to provide merely for the exigencies...locked up in' the inscrutable purposes of Providence. It could not be foreseen, what new changes and modifications of power might be indispensable to effectuate... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...if not an impracticable, task. The instrument was not intended to provide merely for the 1 Wh. 325. exigencies of a few years, but was to endure through...locked up in the inscrutable purposes of Providence. It could not be foreseen what new changes and modifications of power might be indispensable to effectuate... | |
 | United States - Session laws - 1845 - 816 pages
...perilous and difficult, if not an impracticable task. The instrument was not intended merely to provide for the exigencies of a few years, but was to endure...locked up in the inscrutable purposes of Providence. It could not be foreseen what new changes and modifications of power might be made indispensable to... | |
 | United States - Law - 1850 - 886 pages
...and difficult, if not an impracticable task. The instrument was not intended merely to provide tor the exigencies of a few years, but was to endure through...locked up in the inscrutable purposes of Providence. It could not be foreseen what new changes and modifications of power might be made indispensable to... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 702 pages
...foreseen that this would be a perilous and difficult, if not an impracticable, task. The instrument was not intended to provide merely for the exigencies...locked up in the inscrutable purposes of Providence. It could not be foreseen what new changes and modifications of power might be indispensable to effectuate... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 834 pages
...was foreseen that it would be perilous and difficult, if not an impracticable task. The instrument was not intended to provide merely for the exigencies of a few years, but was to endure for a lapse of ages, the events of which were locked up in the incontrovertible purposes of providence.... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 774 pages
...foreseen that this would be a perilous and difficult, if not an impracticable task. The instrument was not intended to provide merely for the exigencies...locked up in the inscrutable purposes of Providence. It could not be foreseen what new changes and modifications of power might be indispensable to effectuate... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 770 pages
...foreseen that this would be a perilous and difficult, if not an impracticable task. The instrument was not intended to provide merely for the exigencies of a few years, but was to endure through a long lapsa of ages, the events of which were locked up in the inscrutable purposes of Providence. It could... | |
 | Thomas Read Rootes Cobb - Slavery - 1858 - 612 pages
...and comity exist between the States, can never arise. " The Constitution," says the Supreme Court, "was not intended to provide merely for the exigencies...locked up in the inscrutable purposes of Providence. It could not be foreseen what new changes and modifications of power might be indispensable to effectuate... | |
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The instrument was not intended to provide merely for the exigencies of a few years, but was to endure through a long lapse of ages, the events of which were locked up in the inscrutable purposes of Providence. 
