 | United States. Supreme Court, John Marshall - 1824 - 32 strani
...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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1824 - 954 strani
...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... | |
 | Benjamin Lynde Oliver - 1832 - 408 strani
...purposes for which they were conferred. See 9 Wheat. 18S. 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... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 564 strani
...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... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot, United States. Constitutional Convention - 1836 - 668 strani
...Constitution of the United States, and void. Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. }, 209, 210. 109. The framers of the Constitution must be 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 which it creates,... | |
 | Henry Baldwin - 1837 - 236 strani
...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... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1912 - 702 strani
...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."*" We have seen the Supreme Court of the United States interpret... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 strani
...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... | |
 | 1847 - 632 strani
...act of the 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,... | |
 | Charles Chauncey Burr - 1848 - 380 strani
...the words of a 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... | |
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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... 
