| 1916 - 948 páginas
...has a right to govern itself, so far as it can. And it ought always to be remembered that historical continuity with the past is not a duty, it is only a necessity." 32 — "Questions of here and now occupy nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of the ability of... | |
| James Kirby - 1895 - 414 páginas
...what we are doing and what has been done before. But the present has a right to govern itself so far as it can; and it ought always to be remembered that historic continuity with the past is not a duty—it is only a necessity. I hope the time is coming when this thought will bear fruit." Pursuing... | |
| 1917 - 1106 páginas
...what we are doing and what has been done before. = But the present has a right to govern itself so far as it can; and it ought | always to be remembered...the past is not a duty; it is only a necessity. i I hope that the time is coming when this thought will bear fruit. An ideal - system of law should draw... | |
| 1917 - 1062 páginas
...iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii AN IDEAL SYSTEM OF LAW | always to be remembered that historic continuity with the past is not a duty; The law, so far as it depends on learning, is, indeed, as it has been called, the government of the... | |
| Governmental research association committee on civil service - 1922 - 120 páginas
...opinions prepared for the Supreme Court by Justice Holmes, he is reported to have written "that historical continuity with the past is not a duty, it is only a necessity." This holds for students and observers of most of the older and many of the newer institutions in the... | |
| 1923 - 582 páginas
...what we are doing and what has been done before. But the present has a right to govern itself so far as it can; and it ought always to be remembered that...with the past is not a duty, it is only a necessity." The decisions in this country seem fairly well divided. Some place the burden of convincing on the... | |
| William Roscoe Thayer - 1896 - 716 páginas
...what we are doing and what has been done before. But the present has a right to govern itself so far as it can ; and it ought always to be remembered that...past is not a duty, it is only a necessity. I hope the time is coming when this thought will bear fruit. " An ideal system of law should draw all of its... | |
| Ellen Frankel Paul, Howard Dickman - 1989 - 316 páginas
...Justice Holmes, echoing Jefferson, once observed that "the present has a right to govern itself so far as it can; and it ought always to be remembered that...with the past is not a duty, it is only a necessity." 1 Holmes's observation, at least the first part of it, is quintessential American modernism. American... | |
| Michael G. Kammen - 1987 - 364 páginas
...being merely ironic when he wrote, back in 1895, that "the present has a right to govern itself so far as it can; and it ought always to be remembered that...with the past is not a duty, it is only a necessity." 81 My thanks to the following readers for their thoughtful suggestions: Paul Boyer, Barbara Welter,... | |
| 1990 - 540 páginas
...constitutional argument involves the use of fundamentally historical materials. Mr. Justice Holmes has said that "historic continuity with the past is not a duty it is only a necessity — "10 In Gompers v. United States, 233 US 604, 34 S.Ct. 693, 58 L.Ed. 1 115 (1914), Holmes was speaking... | |
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