 | William Dameron Guthrie - 1898 - 304 pages
...169 US 649, 676. It may be said of the Fourteenth Amendment as Marshall wrote of the Constitution : " As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally...natural sense, and to have intended what they have said."1 Judge Story said in his great work on the Constitution : 2 " What is to become of constitutions... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1898 - 528 pages
...v. Virginia, 76 111. 34 ; Cooley, Const. Lim., 6th ed., p. 70, and cases cited. 2 The framer of the Constitution and the people who adopted it " must...their natural sense, and to have intended what they said." Marshall, CJ, in Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 1, 188. See also Beardstown v. Virginia, 76 11l.... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1898 - 498 pages
...ed., p. 70, and cases cited. 2 The framer of the Constitution and the people who adopted it " must he understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they said." Marshall, C. J , in Gibbons v. Ogden. 9 Wheat. 1, 188. See also Beardstown v. Virginia, 76 Ill.... | |
 | Oregon. Legislative Assembly. Senate - 1899 - 994 pages
...consist of the necessary number of circuit judges." Mr. Chief Justice Marshall says: "The framers of the constitution and the people who adopted it must be...natural sense and to have intended what they have said." The language employed authorizes the legislature to provide for the election of judges in distinct... | |
 | 1899 - 1046 pages
...astuteness are not admissible to explain away an expression of the sovereign will. The framers of the constitution, and the people who adopted It, must be understood to have intended the words employed in that sense most likely to arise from them on first reading them.' Doubtless,... | |
 | 1900 - 778 pages
...the Constitution is to be expounded. As men whose intentions require no concealment generally apply the words which most directly and aptly express the...natural sense, and to have intended what they have said. . . . We know of no rule for construing the extent of such powers, other than is given by the language... | |
 | Bar Association of the State of New Hampshire - 1903 - 1032 pages
...when the language is clear. Then we must apply the general rule, that the statesmen who framed the constitution and the people who adopted it "must be...natural sense, and to have intended what they have said."1 One of the strongest illustrations of this principle is afforded by a case decided by the supreme... | |
 | Emlin McClain - 1900 - 1126 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...words which most directly and aptly express the ideas tbey intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed our constitution, and the people who adopted... | |
 | Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman - 1900 - 676 pages
...the Federal constitution eipressly prohibits to both the exercise of the power. See ante, ยง 91. 3 " As men whose intentions require no concealment generally...the words which most directly and aptly express the idea they inteod W convey, the enlightened patriots who framed oar constitution, and the people who... | |
 | Illinois State Bar Association - 1901 - 780 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 employ the words which most directly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed our Constitution, and... | |
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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... 
