 | 1844 - 888 σελίδες
...Wheaton, 1, he says: " We know of no rule for construing the extent of such powers, other than is given by the language of the instrument which confers them,...with the purposes for which they were conferred." Speaking of an ordinary statute, he says, 12 Wheaton, 151 : " There is always difficulty in extending... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, United States. Supreme Court - 1864 - 772 σελίδες
...construction, yet " we know of no rule for construing the extent of such powers other than is given by the language of the instrument which confers them, taken in connection with the purpose for which they are conferred." Before proceeding to examine the more prominent and plausible... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1866 - 656 σελίδες
...no safe rule for construing the extent or limitation of powers in a constitution other than is given by the language of the instrument which confers them,...connection with the purposes for which they were conferred (Gibboris agt. Gyelin, 9 Wheat. 188), and that the opposition between the constitution and the law... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - 1868 - 672 σελίδες
...agents or lie dormant We know of no rule for construing the extent of such powers, other than is given by the language of the instrument which confers them,...with the purposes for which they were conferred." No apology is necessary for quoting thus liberally from this profound jurist and learned expounder... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1871 - 708 σελίδες
...t> Wbeaton, says: "We know of no rule for construing the extent of such powers other than is given by the language of the instrument which confers them, taken in connection with tho purposes lor which they were oouf erred." Applying this rule of interpretation to the fourteenth... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1873 - 780 σελίδες
...agents, or lie dormant. We know of no rule for construing the extent of such powers, other than is given by the language of the instrument which confers them,...with the purposes for which they were conferred." l 1 See also Id. 222, and Mr. Chief Justice Marshall's opinion in Ogden v. Saunden, 12 Wheat. R. 332.... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1873 - 786 σελίδες
...agents, or lie dormant. We know of no rule for construing the extent of such powers, other than is given by the language of the instrument which confers them,...in connection with the purposes for which they were conferred."1 1 See also Id. 222, and Mr. Chief Justice Marshall's opinion in Ogden v. Saunders, 12... | |
 | 1874 - 500 σελίδες
...agents or lie dormant. We know of no rule for construing the extent of such powers other than is given by the language of the instrument which confers them,...connection with the purposes for which they were conferred. 97 This general view of the origin, nature, and extent of the powers of Congress, and the clear and... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1874 - 554 σελίδες
...agents or liedormant. We know of no rule for coustruingtbeextentof such powers other than is given by the language of the instrument which confers them,...with the purposes for which they were conferred." This general view of the origin, nature, and extent of the powers of Congress, and the clear and authoritative... | |
 | Maine - 1875 - 364 σελίδες
...the powers conferred by the constitution, other than is given by the language of the instrument that confers them, taken in connection with the purposes for which they were conferred." It will not answer to strain, subordinate and dwarf the constitution of this State. That instrument... | |
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We know of no rule for construing the extent of such powers, other than is given by the language of the instrument which confers them, taken in connection with the purposes for which they were conferred. The words are: "Congress shall have power to regulate... 
