 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1868 - 776 pages
...This rule is especially applicable to written constitutions, in which the people will be presumed to have expressed themselves in careful and measured...with the immense importance of the powers delegated, leaving as little as possible to implication.2 It is scarcely conceivable that a case can arise where... | |
 | South Carolina. Supreme Court, J. S. G. Richardson, Robert Wallace Shand, Cyprian Melanchthon Efird, William Hay Townsend, Duncan C. Ray, William Munro Shand - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 634 pages
...quotes with approval the following language from Cooky's Const. Lim. : "The people will be presumed to have expressed themselves in careful and measured...with the immense importance of the powers delegated, leaving as little as possible to implication." In the same work, on page 78 (6th ed.), the author says... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 914 pages
...when we infer that such directions are given to any other end. Especially when, as has been already said, it is but fair to presume that the people in...the immense importance of the powers delegated, and witli a view to leave as little as possible to implication.1 There arc some cases, however, where the... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 904 pages
...when we infer that such directions are given to any other end. Especially when, as has been already said, it is but fair to presume that the people in their constitutiqn have expressed themselves in careful and measured terms, corresponding with the immense... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 788 pages
...This rule is especially applicable to written constitutions, in which the people will be presumed to have expressed themselves in careful and measured...with the immense importance of the powers delegated, leaving as little as possible to implication. It is scarcely conceivable that a case can arise when... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 678 pages
...This rule is especially applicable to written constitutions, in which the people will be presumed to have expressed themselves in careful and measured...with the immense importance of the powers delegated, leaving as little as possible to implication. It is scarcely conceivable that a case can arise where... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 518 pages
...when we infer that such directions are given to any other end, especially when, as has been already said, it is but fair to presume that the people in...constitution have expressed themselves in careful and measOpinion of the Court — Hawley, CJ ured terms, corresponding with the immense importance of the... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 854 pages
...Const. Lim. 58; 1 Story on Const., § 453. In written constitutions, "the people will be presumed to have expressed themselves in careful and measured...with the immense importance of the powers delegated." Cooley's Const. Lim. 58, 79. "The trainers of the constitution," says MARSHALL, CJ, "and the people... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 598 pages
...is applicable with special force to written constitutions, in which the people will be presumed to have expressed themselves in careful and measured...terms, corresponding with the immense importance of State ex rel. v. Lewis. the powers delegated, leaving as little as possible to implication." Cooley's... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1878 - 1032 pages
...when we infer that such directions are given to any other end. Especially when, as has been already said, it is but fair to presume that the people in...view to leave as little as possible to implication. 2 There are some cases, however, where the doctrine of directory statutes has been applied to constitutional... | |
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... we impute to the people a want of due appreciation of the purpose and proper province of such an instrument when we infer that such directions are given to any other end, especially when, as has... 
