 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1989 - 1558 strani
...the very basis of its authority. The proposition should be ielf-evident. As Thomas Jefferson said, "Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written...Let us not make it a blank paper. by construction." Or as Washington declared, "If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1989 - 1346 strani
...conversation, the whole debate we are having here this morning. He says, "Our peculiar security is the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction." I urge people to consider the dangers of turning the Constitution into such a meaningless blank document.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1989 - 1064 strani
...REMARKED SHORTLY AFTER THE RATIFICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION THAT "OUR NATION'S PARTICULAR SECURITY IS THE POSSESSION OF A WRITTEN CONSTITUTION. LET US NOT MAKE IT A BLANK PAPER BY CONSTRUCTION." JUDGE CAMBRIDGE, WHAT DO YOU THINK HE MEANT BY THAT WARNING: "LET US NOT MAKE IT A BLANK PAPER BY CONSTRUCTION"?... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1989 - 1454 strani
...government, as well as Its skilled practitioner, reflected that since 'our peculiar security Is in possession of a written constitution, let us not make it a blank paper by (judicial) construction." The courts themselves are required to abide by the terms of a written constitution.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1989 - 1562 strani
...authority. The proposition should be :. As Thomas Jefferson said, "Our peculiar security is in the if a written constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper. by i." Or as Washington declared, "If in the opinion of the people ition or modification of the constitutional... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1992 - 1404 strani
...the ratification of the Constitution, and these are his words: "Our Nation's particular security is a possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction." Ms. Huff, what do you think he meant by that warning, "let us not make it a blank paper by construction"?... | |
 | Jefferson Powell - 1993 - 320 strani
...inherent nature and powers of government were irrelevant and pernicious. "Our peculiar security is in possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction." Letter to Wilson C. Nicholas, in Dumbauld, Political Writings, 144. 205 Marbury v. Madison, 5 US (1... | |
 | Sanford Levinson - 1995 - 344 strani
...had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, when it is found necessary, than to assume by a construction which would make our powers boundless....us not make it a blank paper by construction. ... I confess, then, I think it important, in the present case, to set an example against broad construction... | |
 | William Quirk, R. Randall Bridwell - 1995 - 162 strani
...Constitution. Jefferson wrote to Wilson Gary Nicholas on September 7, 1803, "Our peculiar security is in possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction." Jefferson was familiar with the work of Bishop Hoadly, the seventeenth-century ecclesiastic, who wrote,... | |
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When an instrument admits two constructions, the one safe, the other dangerous, the one precise, the other indefinite, I prefer that which is safe and precise. I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than... 
