...outlines not sharp and contemporary, but permitting of increasing definiteness through experience. "The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical...living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their significance is vital not formal; it is to be gathered not simply by taking the words and a dictionary,...

...349, 373. "But the provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their existence in their form; they are organic living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their significance is vital not formal; it is to be gathered not simply by taking the words and a dictionary,...

...Constitution and the amendments giving a right to trial by jury &c. to persons charged with such crimes. But the provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical...living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their significance is vital not formal; it is to be gathered not simply by taking the words and a dictionary,...

...the Supreme Court has well expressed the duty of the Judge in interpreting the Constitution,—" But the provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical...living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their significance is vital, not formal; it is to be gathered not simply by taking the words and a...

...and the Amendments giving a right to trial by jury, etc., to persons charged with such crimes. But the provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical...living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their significance is vital, not formal; it is to be gathered not simply by taking the words and a...

...felicity.4 ''The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their esssnce in their form; they are organic living institutions...restrict speech either by a censorship or by a criminal Act of Dec. 26, 1785, 12 Hening's Statutes at Large of Virginia (1823), c. 34, p. 84. 1 Revised Code...

...the Supreme Bench. His view of the constitution is expressed in the following trenchant statement : "The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical...living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their significance is vital not formal ; it is to be gathered not simply by taking the words and a...

...possessed by the court are great. "The provisions of the constitution," as Justice Holmes once remarked, "are not mathematical formulas having their essence...living institutions, transplanted from English soil. This significance is vital, not formal ; it is to be gathered not merely by taking the words and a...

...John Stuart Mill. Justice Holmes phrases the thought with even more than his habitual felicity.88 " The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical...living institutions transplanted from English soil." 1 It is now clear that the First Amendment fixes limits upon the power of Congress to restrict speech...

...meaning as determined by precedent. The rational or progressive judge, on the other hand, declares: The " provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical...living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their significance is vital not formal; it is to be gathered not simply by taking the words and a dictionary,...