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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... "
A Compilation of Cases of Contested Elections to Seats in the Assembly of ... - Page 163
by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - 1871 - 513 pages
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The Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the Case of ...

United States. Supreme Court, John Marshall - 1824 - 32 pages
...of this strict construction, nor adopt it as the rule by which the constitution is to be expounded. As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally...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...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme ..., Volume 9; Volume 22

United States. Supreme Court - 1824 - 990 pages
...of this strict construction, nor adopt it as the rule by which the constitution is to be expounded. As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally...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...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme ..., Volume 9; Volume 22

United States. Supreme Court - 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...
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The Rights of an American Citizen: With a Commentary on State Rights, and on ...

Benjamin Lynde Oliver - 1832 - 430 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...
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A General View of the Origin and Nature of the Constitution and Government ...

Henry Baldwin - 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...
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An Argument on the Unconstitutionality of Slavery: Embracing an Abstract of ...

George Washington Frost Mellen - 1841 - 452 pages
...of this strict construction, nor adopt it as the rule by which the Constitution is to be expounded. As men whose intentions require no concealment generally...they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who formed our Constitution, and the people icho adopted it, must be understood to employ words in their...
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Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity Argued and Determined in ..., Volume 27

Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1873 - 778 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...
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Essays, Theological and Miscellaneous, Reprinted from the Princeton Review ...

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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The Nineteenth Century, Volume 2

Charles Chauncey Burr - 1848 - 380 pages
...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 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 to construe...
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Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan, Volume 120

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 pages
...Marshall said : "The framers of the Constitution, and the people who 100 120 MICHIGAN REPORTS. [Apr. adopted it, must be understood to have employed words...sense, and to have intended what they have said." Quoting this language, Judge Cooley, in his Constitutional Limitations, said at page 73 (6th Ed.) :...
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