 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1874 - 750 pages
...the application.* Words to be Taken in their Natural Sense. — Chief Justice Marshall has said, " As men whose intentions require no concealment generally...aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the patriots who framed our Constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have employed... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1874 - 916 pages
...have been employed in their natural and ordinary meaning. Says Marshall, Ch. J. : "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." 2 This is but saying that no forced or unnatural construction is to be... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (5th Circuit), William Burnham Woods - 1875 - 796 pages
...denied therein." In Gibbons v. Ogdeni 9 Wheat, 188, Chief Justice MARSHALL said : " The framers of the constitution and the people who adopted it must be...employed words in their natural sense, and to have understood what they meant" And Judge COOLEY, in his work on Constitutional Limitations, page 59, uses... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1876 - 854 pages
...powers delegated." Cooley's Const. Lim. 58, 79. "The trainers of the constitution," says MARSHALL, CJ, "and the people who adopted it, must be understood...employed words in their natural sense, and to have understood what they meant." Gibbens v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 188. And Mr. Cooley, speaking of the provisions... | |
 | David A. McKnight - 1878 - 446 pages
...the detail requisite in complying with its broadest stipulations. " 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 power which it creates, there is no other rule than to... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - 1913 - 284 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...intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed the Constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in their... | |
 | 1881 - 406 pages
...of the US Supreme Court in the case of "Gibbons vs. Ogden" (9 Wheaten 184) says: "The framers of the Constitution and the people who adopted it, must be...employed words in their natural sense, and to have understood what they meant." Mr. Cooley upon this same subject further says: "It is possible however... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1882 - 798 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...to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed our coustitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in their natural... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1882 - 912 pages
...on this subject is thus stated by MARSHALL, CJ, in Gibbons v. Oyden, 4 Wheat. 188. Thcframers of the Constitution and the people who adopted it " must...sense, and to have intended what they have said." Cooley's Const. Lim. 72. We find nothing in the Constitution which shows that the word is used in the... | |
 | Iowa. General Assembly - 1884 - 1392 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 have said. If, from the imperfection of human lariguage, there should be serious doubts respecting the extent of any given power, It is a well settled... | |
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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... 
