 | United States. Supreme Court, John Marshall - Exclusive and concurrent legislative powers - 1824 - 32 pages
...men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally employ the words which most directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened...what they have said. If, from the imperfection of faumaci language, there should be serious doubts respecting the extent of any given power, it is a... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 990 pages
...whose intentions require no concealment, generally employ the words which most directly and- aptly. express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened,...and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have-employed words in. their natural sense, and to .have intended what they have said. If, from tha... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 952 pages
...patriots who framed .our constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have-employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said. If, from tha imperfection of human language, there should be serious doubts respecting the extect of any given... | |
 | Benjamin Lynde Oliver - Citizenship - 1832 - 428 pages
...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 - Constitutional history - 1833 - 540 pages
...whose intentions require no concealment, generally employ the words, which most directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey ; the enlightened...imperfection of human language, there should be serious doubts respecting the extent of any given power, it is a well settled rule, that the objects, for which... | |
 | Henry Baldwin - Constitutional law - 1837 - 236 pages
...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 - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally employ the words which most directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened...imperfection of human language, there should be serious doubts respecting the extent of any given power, it is a well settled rule that the objects for which... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...patriots who formed our Constitution, and the people icho adopted it, must be understood to employ words in their natural sense, and to have intended...imperfection of human language, there should be serious doubts respecting the extent of any given power, it is a well settled rule that the objects for which... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 782 pages
...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... | |
 | Presbyterian Church - 1847 - 632 pages
...legislature repugnant to the constitution is absolutely void." — P. 167. " The framers of the constitution must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to hare intended what they have said ; and in construing the extent of the powers which it creates, there... | |
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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... 
