 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - 1871 - 692 страница
...directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed our Constitution, and the people who adopted it, must...employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said. If, from the imperfection of human language, there should be serious... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1871 - 846 страница
...irreconcilably repugnant, that which is last in order of time and in local position is to be preferred. adopted it, must be understood to have employed words...natural sense, and to have understood what they meant." 1 This is but saying that no forced or unnatural construction is to be put upon their language ; and... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. Senate - 1871 - 1004 страница
...Ch. J., in Gibbons vs. Ogden.'J Wheatou, 188, uses I his language : "The fraincrs of the constitution must be understood to have employed words in their...natural sense, and to have understood what they meant." We are striving to arrive at what those who framed adopted, and ratified our constitution meant by... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1922 - 848 страница
...directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed our constitution, and the people who adopted it, must...employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said." This language of the people in the constitution, "equal protection of... | |
 | Samuel Alfred Foot - 1873 - 518 страница
...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,... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1874 - 904 страница
...presume that words have been employed in their natyral and ordinary meaning. Says Marshall, Ch. J. : " The framers of the Constitution, and the people who...natural sense, and to have understood what they meant." 2 This is but saying that no forced or unnatural construction is to be put upon their language ; and... | |
 | 1874 - 500 страница
...directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed our Constitution, and the people who adopted it, must...employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they said. * * * ^he grant does not convey power which might be beneficial to the grantor,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1874 - 554 страница
...directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed our Constitution, and the people who adopted it, must...employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they said. * * * The grant does not convey power which might be beneficial to the grantor,... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1874 - 750 страница
...which most directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the patriots who framed our Constitution, and the people who adopted it, must...employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said." f Transposition of Clauses. — In regard to the transposition of sentences... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (5th Circuit), William Burnham Woods - 1875 - 796 страница
...rights asserted and denied therein." In Gibbons v. Ogdeni 9 Wheat, 188, Chief Justice MARSHALL said : " The framers of the constitution and the people who...natural sense, and to have understood what they meant" And Judge COOLEY, in his work on Constitutional Limitations, page 59, uses the following clear and... | |
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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... 
