 | United States. Supreme Court, John Marshall - 1824 - 32 pages
...directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed our constitution, and the people who adopted it, must...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 540 pages
...directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey ; the enlightened patriots, who framed our constitution, and the people, who adopted it, must...employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended, what they have said. If, from the imperfection of human language, there should be serious... | |
 | 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...employed words, in 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... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 pages
...directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed our constitution, and the people who adopted it, must...employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said. If, from the imperfection of human language, there should be serious... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Charles Chauncey Burr - 1848 - 380 pages
...decision of the Supreme Court, ( Gibbons r. Ogden , 9 Wheat. 1,209,210.) "The framers of the constitution must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they said, and in construing the extent of the powers which it creates, there is no other... | |
 | 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 pages
...Marshall said : "The framers of the Constitution, 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,... | |
 | 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 - 1855 - 648 pages
...guidance of posterity." Thus, Marshall, CJ, in relation to the Constitution of the United States : " The framers of the constitution, and the people who...adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in then1 natural sense, and to have intended what they said." Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 188. So the dissenting... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 770 pages
...which most directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the patriots who framed our Constitution, and the people who adopted it, must...employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said."* Transposition of Clauses. — In regard to the transposition of sentences... | |
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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... 
