 | United States. Supreme Court, John Marshall - Exclusive and concurrent legislative powers - 1824 - 32 pages
...import, and which are consistent with the general views and objects of the instrument ; for that narrow construction which would cripple the government, and...fairly understood, render it competent, then we cannot preceive the propriety of this strict construction, nor adopt it as the rule by which the constitution... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 952 pages
...import, and which are consistent with the general views and objects of the instrument; for that narrow construction, which would cripple the government, and render it unequal to the object for which it is declared to be instituted, and to which the powers given, as fairly understood,... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1855 - 584 pages
...impart ; and which are consistent with the general views and objects of the instrument ; for that narrow construction which would cripple the Government, and...construction, nor adopt it as the rule by which the Constitutution is to be expounded. Powerful and ingenious minds, taking as postulates, that the power... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - Judges - 1854 - 554 pages
...import, and which are consistent with the general views and objects of the instrument ; for that narrow construction which would cripple the Government, and...rule by which the Constitution is to be expounded." And again, at the close of the opinion, " Powerful and ingenious minds, taking, as postulates, that... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - Constitutional law - 1868 - 570 pages
...instrument — for that narrow construction which would cripple the government, and render it unequal for the objects for which it is declared to be instituted,...rule by which the Constitution is to be expounded.'' § 268. Nor must it be supposed that these liberal and high national views which prevailed in the Supreme... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 672 pages
...themselves and their posterity the blessings of liberty, if we give to it such a construction as will cripple the government, and render it unequal to the objects for which it was instituted. We must also bear in mind that no interpretation of the words, in which those powers... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1874 - 572 pages
...import, and which are consistent with the general views and objects of the instrument; for that narrow construction which would cripple the Government.,...it as the rule by which the Constitution is to be expounded.5 And again : — ' Powerful and ingenious minds taking, as postulates, that the powers expressly... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 1038 pages
...construction which would cripple the government, and render It unequal for the objects for which it was declared to be instituted, and to which the powers...rule by which the Constitution Is to be expounded.' In Martin v. Hunter, 1 Wheat. 304, 4 L. Ed. 07, Mr. Justice Story said: 'This instrument [the Constitution],... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 2042 pages
...construction which would cripple the government, and render it unequal for the objects for which it was declared to be instituted, and to which the powers...rule by which the Constitution is to be expounded.' In Martin v. Hunter, 1 Wheat. .104, 4 L. Ed. 97, Mr. Justice Story said: 'This instrument [the Constitution],... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - Bar associations - 1913 - 282 pages
...impart, and which are consistent with the general views an objects of the instrument; for that narrow construction which would cripple the government, and...unequal to the objects for which it is declared to be submitted, and to which the powers given, as fairly understood, render it competent; then we cannot... | |
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... that narrow construction which, in support of some theory not to be found in the Constitution, would deny to the government those powers which the words of the grant, as usually understood, import, and which are' consistent with the general views... 
