...such statutes effective. As was said by the court in Boyd v. US, 116 US 616, 635, 6 Sup. Ct. 524, 535: "It is the duty of courts to be watchful for the constitutional rights of the citizen, and against any stealthy encroachments thereon. Their motto should be, 'Obsta principiis.' " Certainly this duty must apply...

...29 L. Ed. 746, of prohibitions contained in the Constitution upon the powers of Congress : "A close, literal construction deprives them of half their efficacy,...leads to gradual depreciation of the right, as if It were more in sound than in substance. It is the duty of the courts to be watchful of the constitutional...

...Constitutional provisions for the security of person and property are to be liberally construed, and 'it is the duty of courts to be watchful for the constitutional rights of the citizen, and against stealthy encroachments thereon'." Statements of a similar tenor by the courts calling for a liberal...

...holding that the privilege could be invoked in the context of a civil forfeiture proceeding, had warned that: "[Constitutional provisions for the security...their efficacy, and leads to gradual depreciation MARSHALL, ,!.. dissenting 410 US of the right, as if it consisted more in sound than in substance."...

...footing in that way, namely, by silent approaches and slight deviations from legal modes of procedure. This can only be obviated by adhering to the rule...and property should be* liberally construed. A close 10 If there had been probable cause for the search of the automobile, a search warrant would not have...

...property are to be construed liberally. "A close and literal construction," it was said in that case, "deprives them of half their efficacy, and leads to gradual depreciation of the right, as if it existed more in sound than in substance. It is the duty of courts to be watchful for the constitutional...

...footing in that way, namely, by silent approaches and slight deviations from legal modes of procedure. This can only be obviated by adhering to the rule...as if it consisted more in sound than in substance. 310 It is the duty of courts to be watchful for the constitutional rights of the citizen, and against...

...question rests upon its observation that historically the 181. Boyd v. United States, 116 US 616 (1885): [Constitutional provisions for the security of person...liberally construed. A close and literal construction of them deprives them of half their efficacy, and leads to gradual depreciation of the rights as if...

...historically the 181. Boyd v. United States, 116 US 616 (1885): [Constitutional provisions for tbe security of person and property should be liberally construed. A close and literal construction of them deprives them of half their efficacy, and leads to gradual depreciation of the rights as if...

...security of person and prope should be liberally construed. A close and literal construction depri them of half their efficacy, and leads to gradual depreciation of the rij as if it consisted more in sound than in substance."288 The rule of lib* construction of constitutional...