 | United States. Supreme Court, John Marshall - 1824 - 32 páginas
...intend to convey, the enlightened 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 the imperfection of faumaci language, there should be serious doubts respecting... | |
 | Benjamin Lynde Oliver - 1832 - 428 páginas
...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... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 564 páginas
...to convey ; the enlightened 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 the imperfection of human language, there should be serious doubts respecting the... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1836 - 680 páginas
...must l>e understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said : and in construing the extent of the powers...language of the instrument which confers them, in connection with the purposes for which they were conferred. Ihid. 188, 18(1. 110. In the clause of... | |
 | Henry Baldwin - 1837 - 236 páginas
...directly and aptly expressed the idea they intended to convey, as well as the people who adopted it; must be understood to have employed words, in 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 objects... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 páginas
...intend to convey, the enlightened 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 the imperfection of human language, there should be serious doubts respecting the... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1873 - 782 páginas
...Gibbons rx. Ogden, 9. Wheat. 188, says: "The framers of the constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have 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... | |
 | 1847 - 632 páginas
...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... | |
 | Charles Chauncey Burr - 1848 - 380 páginas
...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...the powers which it creates, there is no other rule to construe the language which confers them, in connection with the powers for which they were conferred."... | |
 | 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 páginas
...: "The framers of the Constitution, and the people who 100 120 MICHIGAN REPORTS. [Apr. adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said." Quoting this language, Judge Cooley, in his Constitutional Limitations, said at page 73... | |
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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 to... 
