 | Samuel Alfred Foot - New York (State) - 1873 - 518 pages
...has laid down the law on this point (Wheaton, vol. 9, p. 209), that the framers of the Constitution " must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they said, . . . that there is no other rule than to consider the language of the instrument, ... in connection... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1874 - 554 pages
...ourselves justified in adopting it. * * * As men whose intentions require no concealment generally employ words which most directly and aptly express the ideas...their natural sense, and to have intended what they said. * * * The grant does not convey power which might be beneficial to the grantor, if retained by... | |
 | 1874 - 500 pages
...justified in adopting it. * * • * As men. whose intentions require no concealment generally employ words which most directly and aptly express the ideas...their natural sense, and to have intended what they said. * * * ^he grant does not convey power which might be beneficial to the grantor, if retained by... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional law - 1874 - 750 pages
...the application.* Words to be Taken in their Natural Sense. — Chief Justice Marshall has said, " As men whose intentions require no concealment generally...aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the patriots who framed our Constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have employed... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 914 pages
...have been employed in their natural and ordinary meaning. Says Marshall, Ch. J. : "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." 2 This is but saying that no forced or unnatural construction is to be... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 854 pages
...powers delegated." Cooley's Const. Lim. 58, 79. "The trainers of the constitution," says MARSHALL, CJ, "and the people who adopted it, must be understood...employed words in their natural sense, and to have understood what they meant." Gibbens v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 188. And Mr. Cooley, speaking of the provisions... | |
 | David A. McKnight - Election law - 1878 - 446 pages
...the detail requisite in complying with its broadest stipulations. " 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 power which it creates, there is no other rule than to... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - Bar associations - 1913 - 282 pages
...of this strict construction, nor adopt it as the rule by which the Constitution is to be expounded. As men whose intentions require no concealment, generally...intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed the Constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in their... | |
 | 1881 - 406 pages
...of the US Supreme Court in the case of "Gibbons vs. Ogden" (9 Wheaten 184) says: "The framers of the Constitution and the people who adopted it, must be...employed words in their natural sense, and to have understood what they meant." Mr. Cooley upon this same subject further says: "It is possible however... | |
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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... 
