 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 pages
...being within the words of the rule, must be within its operation likewise, unless there be something in the literal construction so obviously absurd, or...as to justify those who expound the constitution in making it an exception. On what safe and intelligible ground can this exception stand ? There is no... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 pages
...being within the words of the rule, must be within its operation likewise, unless there be something in the literal construction so obviously absurd, or...as to justify those who expound the constitution in making it an exception. On what safe and intelligible ground can this exception stand 1 There is no... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1854 - 674 pages
...being within the words of the rule, must be within its operation likewise, unless there be something in the literal construction so obviously absurd, or...as to justify those who expound the Constitution in making it an exception. " On what safe and intelligible ground can this exception stand ? There is... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - 1866 - 810 pages
...within the words of tho rule, must bo within its operation likewise, unless there be something in tho literal construction so obviously absurd, or mischievous,...as to justify those who expound the constitution in making it an exception." (d) Green ». Diddle, 8 Wheat. 1 ; Hawkins i). Barney, 5 Pet. 457. A contract... | |
 | 1901 - 1022 pages
...States, they may amend the Constitution, but that those who expound the Constitution could do nothing " so obviously absurd or mischievous or repugnant to the general spirit of the instrument " as to give it " a construction not warranted by its words." In reply to the political argument that the framers... | |
 | 1877 - 980 pages
...being within the words of the rule, must be within its operation likewise, unless there be something in the literal construction so obviously absurd, or...as to justify those who expound the constitution in making it an exception." Placing these passages side those already quoted, but one construction can... | |
 | United States Court of Commissioners of - 1877 - 164 pages
...being within the words of the rule, must be within its operation likewise, unless there be something in the literal construction so obviously absurd or...as to justify those who expound the Constitution in making it an exception. 77 Construing the present statute on this principle, we must allow these claims... | |
 | 1882 - 1916 pages
...being within the words of the rule, must be within its operation likewise, unless there be something in the literal construction so obviously absurd or...as to justify those who expound the constitution in making it an exception." 4 Wheat. 644. Following that authority, we cannot adopt the narrow view for... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) - 1883 - 106 pages
...being within the words of the rule, must be within its operation likewise, unless there be something in the literal construction so obviously absurd or...as to justify those who expound the Constitution in making it an exception." (4 Wheat., 494.) All history shows that a particular grievance suffered by... | |
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The case being within the words of the rule, must be within its operation likewise, unless there be something in the literal construction so obviously absurd, or mischievous, or repugnant to the general spirit of the instrument, as to justify those who... 
