 | United States. Supreme Court, John Marshall - 1824 - 32 σελίδες
...directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed our constitution, and the people who adopted it, must...their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said. If, from the imperfection of faumaci language, there should be serious doubts respecting... | |
 | Benjamin Lynde Oliver - 1832 - 428 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 540 σελίδες
...directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey ; the enlightened patriots, who framed our constitution, and the people, who adopted it, must...their natural sense, and to have intended, what they have said. If, from the imperfection of human language, there should be serious doubts respecting the... | |
 | Henry Baldwin - 1837 - 236 σελίδες
...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...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 objects... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 σελίδες
...directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed our constitution, and the people who adopted it, must...their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said. If, from the imperfection of human language, there should be serious doubts respecting the... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1873 - 782 σελίδες
...and ordinary meaning. Chief Justice Marshall, in the case of Gibbons rx. Ogden, 9. Wheat. 188, says: "The framers of the constitution, and the people who...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... | |
 | Charles Chauncey Burr - 1848 - 380 σελίδες
...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 rule to construe the... | |
 | 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 σελίδες
...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...their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said." Quoting this language, Judge Cooley, in his Constitutional Limitations, said at page 73... | |
 | 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 σελίδες
...permanent will of the people, intended for the guidance of posterity." Thus, Marshall, CJ, in relation to the Constitution of the United States : " The framers...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... | |
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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... 
