 | United States. Congress - 1834 - 640 Seiten
...the work itself, because it will be destructive of the whole fabric. We might as well endeavor to mix brass, iron, and clay, as to incorporate such heterogeneous...by comparing it with a law. Would any Legislature endeavor to introduce into a former act a subsequent amendment, and let them stand so connected ? When... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1834 - 708 Seiten
...endeavor to mix brass, iron, and clay, AUGUST 13, 1789.] Jlmtndmmls to the Constitution. [H. OF R. as to incorporate such heterogeneous articles; the...by comparing it with a law. Would any Legislature endeavor to introduce into a furnier act a subsequent amendment, and let them stand so connected? When... | |
 | Robert Taylor Conrad - 1846 - 900 Seiten
...work itself, because it will be destructive of the whole fabric. We might as well endeavour to mix brass, iron, and clay, as to incorporate such heterogeneous...an alteration is made in an act, it is done by way o¥ supplement ; the latter act always repealing the former in every specified case of difference."... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1857 - 822 Seiten
...other. Its absurdity will be discovered by comparing it with a law. Would any legislature endeavor to introduce into a former act a subsequent amendment,...always repealing the former in every specified case of diS'erence. Besides this, sir, it is questionable whether we have the right to propose amendments in... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1857 - 828 Seiten
...the work itself, because it will be destructive of the whole fabric. We might as well endeavor to mix brass, iron, and clay, as to incorporate such heterogeneous...by comparing it with a law. Would any legislature endeavor to introduce into a former act a subsequent amendment, and let them stand so connected? When... | |
 | David Kemper Watson - 1910 - 1140 Seiten
...the work itself, because it will be destructive of the whole fabric. We might as well endeavor to mix brass, iron and clay as to incorporate such heterogeneous...absurdity will be discovered by comparing it with the law. Would any Legislature endeavor to introduce into a former act a subsequent amendment, and... | |
 | United States. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission - 1941 - 904 Seiten
...in the committee of the whole, as destructive of the whole fabric: "We might as well endeavor to mix brass, iron, and clay, as to incorporate such heterogeneous articles; the one contradictory to the other. . . . it is questionable whether we have the right to propose amendments in this way. The constitution... | |
 | Wayne D. Moore - 1998 - 312 Seiten
...integrating them into the original text. He reportedly argued that "[w]e might as well endeavor to mix brass, iron, and clay, as to incorporate such heterogeneous articles; the one contradictory to the other." He characterized the original text as "the act of the- people" and suggested that it "ought to remain... | |
 | Robert A. Goldwin - 1997 - 236 Seiten
...denunciation of interweaving and the amendments was even more disparaging: "We might as well endeavor to mix brass, iron and clay, as to incorporate such heterogeneous articles; the one contradictory to the other." 4 We know now that setting the amendments off separately, all in a group that can be identified as... | |
 | Melissa Schwartzberg - 2007 - 211 Seiten
...supplemental amendments, not those that would repeal a portion of the text: "We might as well endeavor to mix brass, iron and clay, as to incorporate such heterogeneous articles, the one contradictory to the other. . . . When an alteration is made in an act, it is done by way of supplement: The latter act always... | |
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We ought not to interweave our propositions into the work itself, because it will be destructive of the whole fabric. We might as well endeavor to mix brass, iron, and clay, as to incorporate such heterogeneous articles ; the one contradictory to the... 