 | United States. Supreme Court, John Marshall - 1824 - 32 pagina’s
...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 serious doubts respecting the extent of any given power, it is a... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1824 - 990 pagina’s
...said. If, from tha imperfection of human language, there should be serious doubts respecting the exteet of any given power, it is a well settled rule, that the objects for which it was given, especially when those ob 1824. jects are expressed in the instrument itself, should have great... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1824 - 952 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 - 540 pagina’s
...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,...well settled rule, that the objects, for which it was given, especially, when those objects are expressed in the instrument itself, should have great influence... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 pagina’s
...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...well settled rule that the objects for which it was given, especially when those objects are expressed in the instrument itself, should have great influence... | |
 | 1841 - 604 pagina’s
...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...well settled rule that the objects for which it was given, especially when those objects arc expressed in the instrument itself, should have great influence... | |
 | 1841 - 598 pagina’s
...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...power, it is a well settled rule that the objects lor which it was given, especially when those objects are expressed in the instrument itself, should... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1900 - 808 pagina’s
...and the people who 100 120 MICHIGAN REPORTS. [Apr. adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said." Quoting this language, Judge Cooley, in his Constitutional Limitations, said at page 73 (6th Ed.) :... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 770 pagina’s
...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."* Transposition of Clauses. — In regard to the transposition of sentences in order to arrive at the... | |
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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... 
