79 promulgating the law. It is said, constitution must be construed as on the day after it was enacted. Dr. Wynes phrase ‘generic interpretation’ clearly brings out the true nature of this principle of interpretation. He wrote: ‘…generic interpretation’ … asserts no more than that new developments of the same subject and new means of executing an unchanging power do arise from time to time and are capable of control and exercise by the appropriate organ to which the power has been committed … while the power remains the same, its extent and ambit may grow with the progress of history. Hence it will be seen that suppositions as to what the Framers might have done if their minds had been irrelevant directed to future and the question that developments whether a are novel development is or is not included in the terms of the constitution finds its solution in the application of the ordinary principles of interpretation, namely, what is the meaning of the terms in which his intention has been expressed?” (R. v. Brislan; p. (1935) 54C.L.R. 262).

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