 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 858 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...they have said. If, from the imperfection of human lan' guage, there should be serious doubts respecting the extent of any given power, it is a well-settled... | |
 | Missouri. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 940 pages
...have been employed in their natural and ordinary meaning. As MARSHALL, J., says: The framers of the Constitution and the people who adopted it 'must be...sense, and to have intended what they have said.' This is but saying that no forced or unnatural construction is to be put upon their language; and it... | |
 | Hampton Lawrence Carson - Judges - 1892 - 472 pages
...by its framers." The rule is stated in another form in Gibbons v. Ogden* by the Chief Justice: ' ' The enlightened patriots who framed our Constitution...their natural sense, and to have intended what they said. . . . We know of no rule of construing the extent of such powers other than is given by the language... | |
 | James Bradley Thayer - Constitutional law - 1894 - 470 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... | |
 | Patrick Francis Quigley - Education, Compulsory - 1894 - 642 pages
...construction as laid down by the supreme court of the United States : " 1st. 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 than to... | |
 | Economics - 1895 - 596 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...sense, and to have intended what they have said." 9 Wheat. 188. And in Rhode Island v. Massachusetts, where the question was whether a controversy between... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold, Arnold LeBell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 778 pages
...signification of the words employed." Cooley, Const. Lim. (1st ed.), 57. Says MARSHALL, CJ: "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." Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 188. When we examine the very clear and direct... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1210 pages
...signification of the words employed." Cooley, Const. Llm. 57. Says Marshall, CJ: "The f ramers of the constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have employed the words in their natural sense, and to have understood what they meant." Gibbous v. Ogden, 9 Wheat.... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denny, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1909 - 494 pages
...men whose intentions require no concealment generally employ the words which most directly and amply 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... | |
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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... 
