...244. The Probation of Offenders Act, 7 EDW. VII, c. 170, which is much broader, was passed in 1907. * "Time works changes, brings into existence new conditions...application than the mischief which gave it birth." McKenna, J., in Weems t>. United States, 217 US 349, 373. "But the provisions of the Constitution are...

...vital must be capable of wider application than the mischief which gave it birth. This is peculiarly true of constitutions. They are not ephemeral enactments,...as nearly as human institutions can approach it." The future is their care and provision for events of good and bad tendencies of which no prophecy can...

...language should not, therefore, be necessarily confined to the form that evil had theretofore taken. Time works changes, brings into existence new conditions...application than the mischief which gave it birth. This is peculiarly true of const^ tutions. They are not ephemeraTenactments, designed to meet passing occasions....

...language should not, therefore, be necessarily confined to the form that evil had theretofore taken. Time works changes, brings into existence new conditions...application than the mischief which gave it birth. This is peculiarly true of constitutions. They are not ephemeral enactments, designed to meet passing occasions....

...language should not, therefore, be necessarily confined to the form that evil had theretofore taken. Time works changes, brings into existence new conditions...application than the mischief which gave it birth. This is peculiarly true of constitutions. They are not ephemeral enactments, designed to meet passing occasions....

...evils", is nevertheless general and is intended to apply to new conditions. "Therefore," said the Court, "a principle to be vital must be capable of wider...application than the mischief which gave it birth. This is peculiarly true of constitutions." The Supreme Court has steadily refused to apply this Amendment as...

...evils", is nevertheless general and is intended to apply to new conditions. "Therefore," said the Court, "a principle to be vital must be capable of wider...application than the mischief which gave it birth. This is peculiarly true of constitutions." The Supreme Court has steadily refused to apply this Amendment as...

...evils", is nevertheless general and is intended to apply to new conditions. "Therefore," said the Court, "a principle to be vital must be capable of wider...application than the mischief which gave it birth. This is peculiarly true of constitutions." The Supreme Court has steadily refused to apply this Amendment as...

...conviction of the soundness of their principles, they also knew, as the Supreme Court has said, that "A principle to be vital must be capable of wider...application than the mischief which gave it birth. This is peculiarly true of constitutions." This adaptability of the Constitution was not long in proving itself....

...vital, must be capable of wider application than the mischief which gave it birth. This is peculiarly true of Constitutions. They are not ephemeral enactments, designed to meet passing occasions." Mr. Justice McKenna, at page 373 (30 S. Ct. 551). See, also, at page 378 (30 S. Ct. 553) : "The clause...