 As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally employ the words which most directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed our constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood...  A Selection of Cases on Constitutional Law - Side 225av Emlin McClain - 1900 - 1080 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Marshall - 1824 - 32 sider
...of this strict construction, nor adopt it as the rule by which the constitution is to be expounded. As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally...natural sense, and to have intended what they have said. If, from the imperfection of faumaci language, there should be serious doubts respecting the extent... | |
 | Benjamin Lynde Oliver - 1832 - 428 sider
...they were conferred. See 9 Wheat. 188. The reason assigned is, that the framers of the constitution must be understood to have employed words in their...natural sense, and to have intended what they have said. By article VI. of the constitution, treaties made agreeably to it, are also the supreme law of the... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 564 sider
...of this strict construction, nor adopt it as the rule, by which the constitution is to be expounded. As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally...sense, and to have intended, what they have said. If, from the imperfection of human language, there should be serious doubts respecting the extent of... | |
 | Henry Baldwin - 1837 - 236 sider
...employing words which most directly and aptly expressed the idea they intended to convey, as well as the people who adopted it; must be understood to have...their natural sense, and to have intended what they said. " If any doubts exist, respecting the extent of any given power, it is a settled rule that the... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 sider
...of this strict construction, nor adopt it as the rule by which the constitution is to be expounded.) As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally...natural sense, and to have intended what they have said. If, from the imperfection of human language, there should be serious doubts respecting the extent of... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1873 - 782 sider
...Chief Justice Marshall, in the case of Gibbons rx. Ogden, 9. Wheat. 188, says: "The framers of the constitution, and the people who adopted it, must...employed words in their natural sense, and to have understood what they meant." Story on Constitution, Se.c, 453, says : " The true sense in which words... | |
 | Charles Chauncey Burr - 1848 - 380 sider
...decision of the Supreme Court, ( Gibbons r. Ogden , 9 Wheat. 1,209,210.) "The framers of the constitution must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they said, and in construing the extent of the powers which it creates, there is no other rule to construe... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1900 - 808 sider
...Marshall said : "The framers of the Constitution, and the people who 100 120 MICHIGAN REPORTS. [Apr. adopted it, must be understood to have employed words...sense, and to have intended what they have said." Quoting this language, Judge Cooley, in his Constitutional Limitations, said at page 73 (6th Ed.) :... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 770 sider
...generally employ the words which most directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the patriots who framed our Constitution, and the people...sense, and to have intended what they have said."* Transposition of Clauses. — In regard to the transposition of sentences in order to arrive at the... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 774 sider
...Constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be Sturges vs. Crowninshield, 4 Wheat. 202; 203. understood to have employed words in their natural...sense, and to have intended what they have said."* Transposition of Clauses. — In regard to the transposition of sentences in order to arrive at the... | |
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