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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... "
The American Law Register - Page 723
1900
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The Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the Case of ...

United States. Supreme Court, John Marshall - Exclusive and concurrent legislative powers - 1824 - 32 pages
...constitution is to be expounded. As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally employ the words which most directly and aptly express the...natural sense, and to have intended what they have said. If, from the imperfection of faumaci language, there should be serious doubts respecting the extent...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme ..., Volume 9; Volume 22

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 990 pages
...constitution is to be expounded. As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally employ the words which most directly and- aptly. express...and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have-employed words in. their natural sense, and to .have intended what they have said. If, from tha...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme ..., Volume 9; Volume 22

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 952 pages
...patriots who framed .our constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have-employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said. If, from tha imperfection of human language, there should be serious doubts respecting the extect of...
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The Rights of an American Citizen: With a Commentary on State Rights, and on ...

Benjamin Lynde Oliver - Citizenship - 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 also the supreme law of the...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a ..., Volume 1

Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 540 pages
...constitution is to be expounded. As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally employ the words, which most directly and aptly express the...sense, and to have intended, what they have said. If, from the imperfection of human language, there should be serious doubts respecting the extent of...
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A General View of the Origin and Nature of the Constitution and Government ...

Henry Baldwin - Constitutional law - 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...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 rule that the...
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The Writings of John Marshall, Late Chief Justice of the United States, Upon ...

John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...constitution is to be expounded.) As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally employ the words which most directly and aptly express the...natural sense, and to have intended what they have said. If, from the imperfection of human language, there should be serious doubts respecting the extent of...
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An Argument on the Unconstitutionality of Slavery: Embracing an Abstract of ...

George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...the Constitution is to be expounded. As men whose intentions require no concealment generally employ the words which most directly and aptly express the...they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who formed our Constitution, and the people icho adopted it, must be understood to employ words in their...
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Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity Argued and Determined in ..., Volume 27

Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 782 pages
...Chief Justice Marshall, in the case of Gibbons rx. Ogden, 9. Wheat. 188, says: "The framers of the constitution, and the people who adopted it, must...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...
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Essays, Theological and Miscellaneous, Reprinted from the Princeton Review ...

Presbyterian Church - 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...
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