| Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 770 páginas
...no extrinsic evidence can be received as to their intent or meaning. " A constitution or a statute is supposed to contain the whole will of the body...soon resort to the debates in the legislature for the constitutionality of an act of Assembly, as jfe the debates in the convention for the construction... | |
| Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 774 páginas
...emanated ; and I would just as soon resort to the debates in the legislature for the constitutionality of an act of Assembly, as to the debates in the convention for the construction of the Constitution."J I have already had occasion to notice, that constitutions, like statutes, are in some... | |
| Theodore Sedgwick - 1874 - 750 páginas
...no extrinsic evidence can be received as to their intent or meaning. " A Constitution or a statute is supposed to contain the whole will of the body...soon resort to the debates in the Legislature for the constitutionality of an act of Assembly, as to the debates in the convention for the construction of... | |
| James Bradley Thayer - 1894 - 470 páginas
...convention, or the opinion that was generally entertained at the time. A constitution, or a statute, is supposed to contain the whole will of the body...construction of an Act of Assembly, as to the debates in the contention for the construction of the Constitution. The power is said to be restricted to cases that... | |
| John Hampden Dougherty - 1912 - 154 páginas
...laws. If, as was said by Chief Judge Gibson, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the Constitution is supposed to contain the whole will of the body from which it emanated, and if it is not permissible to look into the debates in the Convention in order to learn its meaning,... | |
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