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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... "
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Ohio - Page 538
by Ohio. Supreme Court - 1922
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The Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the Case of ...

United States. Supreme Court, John Marshall - 1824 - 32 pages
...of this strict construction, nor adopt it as the rule by which the constitution is to be expounded. As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally...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...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme ..., Volume 9; Volume 22

United States. Supreme Court - 1824 - 990 pages
...of this strict construction, nor adopt it as the rule by which the constitution is to be expounded. As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally...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...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme ..., Volume 9; Volume 22

United States. Supreme Court - 1824 - 952 pages
...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...
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The Rights of an American Citizen: With a Commentary on State Rights, and on ...

Benjamin Lynde Oliver - 1832 - 428 pages
...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...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a ..., Volume 1

Joseph Story - 1833 - 564 pages
...of this strict construction, nor adopt it as the rule, by which the constitution is to be expounded. As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally...sense, and to have intended, what they have said. If, from the imperfection of human language, there should be serious doubts respecting the extent of...
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A General View of the Origin and Nature of the Constitution and Government ...

Henry Baldwin - 1837 - 236 pages
...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...
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The Writings of John Marshall, Late Chief Justice of the United States, Upon ...

John Marshall - 1839 - 762 pages
...of this strict construction, nor adopt it as the rule by which the constitution is to be expounded.) As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally...natural sense, and to have intended what they have said. If, from the imperfection of human language, there should be serious doubts respecting the extent of...
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An Argument on the Unconstitutionality of Slavery: Embracing an Abstract of ...

George Washington Frost Mellen - 1841 - 452 pages
...of this strict construction, nor adopt it as the rule by which the Constitution is to be expounded. As men whose intentions require no concealment generally...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...
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Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity Argued and Determined in ..., Volume 27

Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1873 - 782 pages
...Chief Justice Marshall, in the case of Gibbons rx. Ogden, 9. Wheat. 188, says: "The framers of the constitution, and the people who adopted it, must...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...
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Essays, Theological and Miscellaneous, Reprinted from the Princeton Review ...

1847 - 632 pages
...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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