 | George Washington Frost Mellen - 1841 - 452 strani
...declared to be instituted, and to which the powers given, as fairly understood, render it competent, then we cannot perceive the propriety of this strict construction,...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... | |
 | 1842 - 338 strani
...intention in intelligible language, and to have done so in prescribing a written rule of conduct. •" As men whose intentions require no concealment generally employ the words which most directly [and5 aptly express the ideas they intend to convey," Legislatures "must be understood to have employed... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - 1854 - 550 strani
...declared to be instituted, and to which the powers given, as fairly understood, render it competent ; then we . cannot perceive the propriety of this strict...rule by which the Constitution is to be expounded." And again, at the close of the opinion, " Powerful and ingenious minds, taking, as postulates, that... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 770 strani
...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... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1855 - 584 strani
...declared to be instituted, and to which the powers given, as fairly understood, render it competent; then we cannot perceive the propriety of this strict construction, nor adopt it as the rule by which the Constitutution is to be expounded. Powerful and ingenious minds, taking as postulates, that the power... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1858 - 572 strani
...declared to be instituted, and to which the powers given, as fairly understood, render it competent; then we cannot perceive the propriety of this strict construction,...rule by which the Constitution is to be expounded.' And again: — 'Powerful and ingenious minds taking, as postulates, that the powers expressly granted... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1859 - 754 strani
...declared to be instituted, and to which the powers given, as fairly understood, render it competent, then we cannot perceive the propriety of this strict construction,...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... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - 1868 - 588 strani
...to be instituted, and to which the powers given, as fairly understood, render it competent — then we cannot perceive the propriety of this strict construction,...rule by which the Constitution is to be expounded." § 268. Nor must it be supposed that these liberal and high national views which prevailed in the Supreme... | |
 | John Alexander Clark - 1872 - 596 strani
...their intention in intelligible language, and to have done so in prescribing a written rule of conduct. "As men whose intentions require no concealment generally...and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey," legislatures "must be *understood to have em-• ployed words in their natural sense, and to have intended... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1874 - 750 strani
...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... | |
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... are consistent with the general views and objects of the instrument; for that narrow construction, which would cripple the government, and render it unequal to the objects for which it is declared to be instituted, and to which the powers given, as... 
