 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - American literature - 1901 - 502 pages
...and judicial framer of the Constitution. The keynote of his rendering was struck in the words, "We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding." — McCulloch vs. State of Maryland, 4 Wheat on, 316. The case involved the constitutionality of the Bank of the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1934 - 816 pages
...against such a narrow conception that Chief Justice Marshall uttered the memorable warning — " We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding " (McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheats 316, 407) — " a constitution intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Law reports, digests, etc - 1938 - 916 pages
...with such an omission. The charge now made finds its only support in a punctilio of grammar. ". . . we must never forget, that it is a constitution we are...expounding." McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheat. 316, 407. Its provisions are not to be interpreted like those of a municipal code or of a penal statute, though... | |
 | Eminent domain - 1952 - 1286 pages
...against such a narrow conception that Chief Justice Marshall uttered the memorable warning — 'We must never forget that it is a constitution we are...expounding' (McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheat. 316, 407)— 'a constitution 80S intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1953 - 1218 pages
...guard against such a narrow conception that Chief Justice Marshall uttered the memorable warning— 'We must never forget that it is a constitution we are...expounding' (McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheat. 316, 407) — 'a constitution Intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare - 1967 - 1414 pages
...10340. The pole-star for constitutional adjudications is John Marshall's greatest judicial utterance that "it is a constitution we are expounding." McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheat. 316, 407. That requires both a spacious view in applying an instrument of government "made for an undefined and... | |
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... Constitution must be confined to the interpretation which the framers, with the conditions and outlook of their time, would have placed upon them, the statement carries its own refutation. It was to guard against such a narrow conception that Chief... 
