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Show 123 end, stoutly mointoined the principle In a $peeeh in the Senate on of the document shQuld not be April 24, c:hanged. 1950 he said, I turn to one of our greot weekli and discover its editor pointing out the our eGunny Is suffering from the growing poim ('if a nation, ond that our Constitution is not whet it ought to be. When people speak that woy of our Constitution they are echoing some of the sentenc. used by the irrespon sible MussoH"i, who soid, 'The time h. come to drag the n.g of liberty through the mud.· But still cur Nation survived, still our ideals survived and still the notion of now there are other friena$ of ours Uberty survived. who imagine thot 0\1' Constitution is outmoded and out doted, and h.ere we hove a greQt man, who hOs writt$ft • •• for GlOAt time telling us plainly thot cur Constitution worthwhUe, that it does not change os the constl tvtion of G,reat' .'rttain changes, through the will of th. 10 people. is not Thomas· po.ition purpose of the som on Constituti,Qn set of be was a seen by his consideration purpose revHled framed in the fiqt only place of the in relation hi) the per'" and in relation to the the needs and desires, of those persons at any given tl'me. The was formed with reference to pRlbiems. Time and in persons in the solution of their Ibid., Vol. 96, Q. P<lttiular time and to G problems chonge. When this hQppens, hoppen, then the CoMtrtution 10 clearly more CGMtitution, but whose behalf it physicGl facts, can must change, but problems. pp. 5.594 ... 11 It It partioui. as it does changes by Qecompcming becomes, in short not only a these grow- 5602, (lUst Congress, 2d. $ess.,) 1110uring President Buchanan's administration, there w...::. t,),...ssed by the Coftgreu of the Unihitd s.tates the Land Grant College Act. SInce the question of constitutionality with respect to the pending meClSUI"e has been brought up, I wi$h to point out that James 8uchanon vetoed the Land Grant College Act |
