...historical context, in the framework of modern fundamental perspectives. Justice Holmes wrote that 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...

...'we must never forget it is a constitution we are expounding'". 465 He also quoted Justice Holmes: "The provisions of the constitution are not mathematical...their essence in their form; they are organic, living 464 These developments occurred in an unusual order in Iceland, for theory there succeeded the change...

...absolute rights and a literal reading of the First Amendment, stated But as Mr. Justice Holmes once said: "[T]he 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,...

...Constitution and the amendments giving a right to trial by jury, Ac., 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...

...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. The significance is vital, not formal; it is to be gathered not simply by taking the words and a dictionary,...