This pronouncement, like that in the bankruptcy case, had to do with the stability of contract.
The stoutest champions of Marshall's beloved stability of institutions and customs were the old Federalist leaders, particularly of New England and New York.
This, then, was the man who presided over the Supreme Court of the United States when the decisions of that tribunal developed the National powers of the Constitution and gave stability to our National life.
The contract clause was made a part of the Nation's fundamental law "to give stability to contracts.
Thus did he develop the idea of good faith and stability of engagement as a life-giving principle of the American Constitution.
Now the order of justice requires that subjects obey their superiors, else the stability of human affairs would cease.
When prophecy shall fail, the people shall be scattered abroad"; wherefore it is evident that prophecy is necessary for the stability of the human race.
On the contrary, That which proceeds from the common will of many has apparently greater stability than that which proceeds from the individual will of some one person.
An oath is added to a vow not because it is more stable, but because greaterstability results from "two immutable things" [*Heb.
Hence it is again that even in human acts, a matter is said to have stability (statum) in reference to its own disposition in the point of a certain immobility or restfulness.
Deliberation of the mind gives a vow its stability, on the part of the person who takes the vow: but it has a greater cause of stability on the part of God, to Whom the vow is offered.
There is, in the first place, the lack of stability caused by the rapid movement from group to group.
It suggests that the first loan be given by the government and the association be content with a second mortgage, receiving in return the greater stability that is secured from a transaction carried on under governmental supervision.
We often fail to realize how much of the stability of our government we owe to patronage.
It is only on the premise of a certain stability over a long run of time that men can hope to follow the method of reason.
We wish her to have peace, stabilityand prosperity.
What long, long columns of figures should we have had to prove the stability of silver, the fluctuating nature of gold!
Economists dispute about almost everything else, but they are unanimous in this: That a money which changes rapidly in purchasing power is destructive of all stability and even of commercial morality.
It is only fair that I should also give his explanation of the stability of the metals, which is extremely interesting.
He spent an autumn day in making measurements and calculations, he listened to the story of the interrupted peal, and probed the cracks in the walls, but saw no reason to reconsider his former verdict or to impugn the stability of the tower.
I have grave doubts about the stability of the tower, though my Chief doesn't share them to anything like the same extent: and perhaps that is just as well, for we are hampered on every side by lack of funds.
The emotional stability and the will to persevere even at considerable cost, which marked youth, are gone.
While Mrs. Orr may not have been jealous, she preempted her husband's home hours mercilessly; but in her father's death Hortense came to know that one of the few props of her stability had been removed.
The stability of a government, for instance, is constantly set down to some ornamental part of it, when in fact the ornamental part has no more to do with stability than the incantations of the soothsayer.
This, however, was found unnecessarily heavy and cumbersome, and it was discovered that the requisite degree of stability could be obtained with much less weight.
Or, has the stability of the government, or has that of the country been weakened?
We of America have been accustomed to contemplate, with something of gratified and patriotic pride, the wondrous progress of our country, and the strength and stability of our Government.
Were it really an easy one, there would be no stability in human societies, for there would be no stability in human nature.
Those things which give a state stability--and without stability we are tossed upon the waves of mere anarchy--have their roots in the remote past.
To be sure, we seem to find it necessary to limit the application of this doctrine, and to seek stability of government by fixing, in certain cases rather arbitrarily, the size of the majority that shall count.
They embody the permanence and stability of the social will, and have a prima facie claim to our reverence.
It would be called Socialism of the radical and dangerous kind--of a kind to menace the stability of government and undermine the very foundations of organized society!
Where government is founded upon the public conscience and the public intelligence the stability of States is a dream.
So long as political stability lasts, the Cambodian economy is likely to grow at a respectable pace.
A coalition government, formed after national elections in 1998, brought renewed political stability and the surrender of remaining Khmer Rouge forces.
The future of Tajikistan's economy and the potential for attracting foreign investment depend upon stability and continued progress in the peace process.
I read all their books, but they make no impression on my belief in the stability of species.
The unbelief of the latter days will rest on belief in the unvaryingstability of nature.
That he proposed to look to the British Constitution for nothing but those elements of stability and permanency which a republican system requires, and which may be incorporated into it without changing its characteristic principles.
That to such a trial it was essential that the government should be so constructed as to give it all the energy and stability reconcilable with the principles of that republican theory.
No government could give us tranquillity and happiness at home, which did not possess sufficient stability and strength to make us respectable abroad.
I congratulate you on the fair prospect of its being adopted, and am happy in the expectation of seeing accomplished what has long been my ardent wish, that you will hereafter have a salutary permanency in magistracy and stability in the laws.
For these reasons, they must go as far, in order to attain stability and permanency, as republican principles would admit.
At the same time, the same words of the Apostle suggest very strongly the Divine stability of the good which meets us in Christ.
But as it is difficult to confine the ruling passion within strict rules of prudence, the amorous temper of Edward led him into a snare, which proved fatal to his repose, and to the stability of his throne.
And, though he gained the victory, the toughness of the contest betokened clearly that hisstability was seriously impaired, and that the country was weary of his domination.
Outside this category Pitt's subordinates were mostly the friends of Newcastle or Fox, and so his secret enemies, or waiters upon Providence who were not sufficiently sure of his stability to call themselves his friends.
The essence of it exists in this: attachment to the King's service, and zeal for the ease and quiet of his life, and stability and strength to future government under the Princess; this declared openly and explicitly to the ministers.
The special rights reserved to Bavaria and Wurttemberg have not proved, as was feared, a danger to the stability of the empire.
Such proceedings could not but arouse anxiety in Austria concerning the stability of her authority in the Polish lands under her crown.
Such incidents were significant of the movement which, with the assured stability of the Consulate, brought immediately to its service those persons who represented, not exactly the greatness, but the capacity of France.
Their state indeed is lofty and high, their polish true and splendid, their order handsome and geometric, their beauty fit and useful, their use gracious and remarkable, their stability unhurt and sharp.
Some of the more heartless leaders of the rebellion defended this severity of treatment and thought "hanging the traitors" would have a good effect and "give stability to the new government.
He lived long enough to see the nation to which he gave political stability submitting itself in entire respect and confidence to the declaration contained in the most remarkable document ever written.
