 | United States. Supreme Court - 1819 - 816 pages
...as to exclude it, or it would have been made a special exception. The OF THE UNITED STATES. 645 ease being within the words of the rule, must be within...in the literal construction so obviously absurd, or mis- College chievous, or repugnant to the general spirit of the Woodward, instrument, as to justify... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 pages
...language would have been so varied as to exclude it, or it would have been made a special exception. The case, being within the words of the rule, must...expound the constitution in making it an exception. On what safe and intelligible ground can this exception stand ? There is no expression in the constitution,... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 pages
...language would have been so varied, as to exclude it, or it would have been made a special exception. The case being within the words of the rule, must...expound the constitution in making it an exception. On what safe and intelligible ground can this exception stand 1 There is no expression in the constitution,... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1854 - 674 pages
...language would have been so varied, as to exclude it, or it would have been made a special exception. The case being within the words of the rule, must...expound the Constitution in making it an exception. " On what safe and intelligible ground can this exception stand ? There is no expression in the Constitution,... | |
 | 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,...expound the constitution in making it an exception." (d) Green ». Diddle, 8 Wheat. 1 ; Hawkins i). Barney, 5 Pet. 457. A contract of a State with an individual,... | |
 | 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
...affect " contract*;' "which respect property or some object of value," etc. Marshall further says: "The case being within the words of the rule, must...expound the constitution in making it an exception." Placing these passages side those already quoted, but one construction can be it upon them. His canon... | |
 | 1882 - 1916 pages
...rule when established, unless some plain and strong reason for excluding it can be given." And again: "The case being within the words of the rule, must...expound the constitution in making it an exception." 4 Wheat. 644. Following that authority, we cannot adopt the narrow view for which counsel contend,... | |
 | Lorenzo Smith Boswell Sawyer, United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) - 1883 - 730 pages
...rule when established, unless some plain and strong reason for excluding it can be given;" and again: "The case being within the words of the rule, must...expound the Constitution in making it an exception." (4 Wheat. 644.) Following that authority, we can not adopt the narrow view for which counsel contend,... | |
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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... 
