 | Geoffrey R. Stone - History - 2004 - 758 pages
...military exigency has passed. . . . and we may well wonder in view of the precedents now established whether constitutional government as heretofore maintained...could survive another great war even victoriously waged."'66 "THK MATTJRKR JUDGMKNT OF POSTKRITY" MANY THEMES PLAYED OUT in the actions taken by the... | |
 | Robert W. Watson - Constitutional history - 2007 - 464 pages
...which they were never intended, and we may well wonder, in view of the precedents now established, whether constitutional government as heretofore maintained...could survive another great war even victoriously waged.48 In effect, Hughes was asking whether constitutional government can operate properly and efficiently... | |
 | Charities - 1927 - 614 pages
...the precedents now established," exclaimed Charles E. Hughes the former justice of the Supreme Court, "whether constitutional government as heretofore maintained...survive another great war even victoriously waged." BY many hands, therefore, the stage was set by 1920 for a strong reaction against everything that had... | |
 | North American review - 1920 - 880 pages
...which they were never intended, and we may well wonder, in view of the precedents now established, whether constitutional government as heretofore maintained...survive another great war even victoriously waged. Coming from such a source — from a man of high distinction in the public life of the nation, from... | |
 | 150 pages
...the essentials of liberty, saying : 28 "We may well wonder in view of the precedents now established whether constitutional government as heretofore maintained...survive another great war even victoriously waged." He was the very man to render this prophecy false. That a far more tremendous war did not impair freedom... | |
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... we may well wonder, in view of the precedents now established, whether constitutional government as heretofore maintained in this republic could survive another great war even victoriously waged. 
