 | United States. Supreme Court, John Marshall - 1824 - 32 strani
...aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed our constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood...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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1824 - 952 strani
...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... | |
 | Benjamin Lynde Oliver - 1832 - 428 strani
...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... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 564 strani
...aptly express the ideas they intend to convey ; the enlightened patriots, who framed our constitution, and the people, who adopted it, must be understood...respecting the extent of any given power, it is a well settled rule, that the objects, for which it was given, especially, when those objects are expressed... | |
 | Henry Baldwin - 1837 - 236 strani
...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... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 strani
...aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed our constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood...respecting the extent of any given power, it is a well settled rule that the objects for which it was given, especially when those objects are expressed... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - 1841 - 452 strani
...patriots who formed our Constitution, and the people icho adopted it, must be understood to employ words in their natural sense, and to have intended...respecting the extent of any given power, it is a well settled rule that the objects for which it was giveu, especially when those objects are expressed... | |
 | 1841 - 604 strani
...If," says Chief Justice Marshall, in his masterly opinion in the celebrated case, of Gibbon vs. Ogden, "if, from the imperfection of human language, there...respecting the extent of any given power, it is a well settled rule that the objects for which it was given, especially when those objects arc expressed... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1873 - 782 strani
...Marshall, in the case of Gibbons rx. Ogden, 9. Wheat. 188, says: "The framers of the constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood...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 strani
...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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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... 
