 | 1917 - 510 Seiten
...scholar and diplomat, James Bryce, at one time British Ambassador to the United States, said: "Yet after all deductions, it ranks above every other written...its scheme, its adaptation to the circumstances of people, the simplicity, brevity, and precision of its language, its judicious mixture of definiteness... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1921 - 566 Seiten
...Constitution: "It deserves the veneration with which the Americans have been ac-. customed to regard it*** After all deductions, it ranks above every other written...precision of its language, its judicious mixture of definiteness of principle with elasticity in details." Of the government created by the Constitution... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1888 - 786 Seiten
...by whom it has been worked, and who might have managed to work even a worse drawn instrument. Yet, after all deductions, it ranks above every other written...precision of its language, its judicious mixture of definiteness in principle with elasticity in details.2 One is therefore induced to ask, before proceeding... | |
 | Joseph Henry Allen - 1889 - 616 Seiten
...Constitution well deserves the admiration which it has won abroad, the veneration it has received at home. " It ranks above every other written constitution for...precision of its language, its judicious mixture of definiteness in principle with elasticity in details." He finds the wisdom of the framers in their... | |
 | 1889 - 560 Seiten
...deductions, says Mr. Bryce, the Constitution of the United States ranks above every other known to history " for the intrinsic excellence of its scheme, its adaptation...precision of its language, its judicious mixture of definiteness in principle with elasticity in details." No small part of its merits he ascribes to its... | |
 | Virginia Bar Association, Virginia State Bar Association - 1895 - 314 Seiten
...of man." And Mr. Bryce, in a strain of less fervid and more discriminating admiration, esteems it " above every other written constitution for the intrinsic...precision of its language, its judicious mixture of definiteness in principle with elasticity in details." A rivalry of pretension to the authorship of... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1896 - 576 Seiten
...by whom it has been worked, and who might have managed to work even a worse-drawn instrument. Yet, after all deductions, it ranks above every other written...precision of its language, its judicious mixture of definiteness in principle with elasticity in details. One is therefore induced to ask, before proceeding... | |
 | 1897 - 592 Seiten
...English authority, " with which Americans have been accustomed to regard it, since it ranks above every written constitution for the intrinsic excellence...simplicity, brevity and precision of its language, and its judicious mixture of definiteness in principle with elasticity in details." There is no feature... | |
 | Edward Cornelius Toune, Graeme Mercer Adam - 1897 - 692 Seiten
...English authority, " with which Americans have been accustomed to regard it, since it ranks above every written constitution for the intrinsic excellence...simplicity, brevity and precision of its language, and its judicious mixture of definiteness in principle with elasticity in details." There is no feature... | |
 | Richard Ellsworth Fast, Hu Maxwell - 1901 - 536 Seiten
...American Commonwealth," in which he says: "The constitution of 1789 . . . . after all deductions . . . . ranks above every other written constitution for the...precision of its language, its judicious mixture of definiteness in principle, with elasticity in detail." Each State has its own constitution framed in... | |
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Yet, after all deductions, it ranks above every other written constitution for the intrinsic excellence of its scheme, its adaptation to the circumstances of the people, the simplicity, brevity, and precision of its language, its judicious mixture of... 
