 | Stephen Simpson - Presidents - 1833 - 408 pages
...other dangerous^ the one precise, the other indefinite, I prefer that which is safe and precise. I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation,...blank paper by construction. I say the same as to the opinions of those who coneider the grant of the treaty making power as boundless. If it is, then we... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 608 pages
...dangerous, the one precise, the other indefinite, I prefer that which is safe and precise ;" and that he had " rather ask an enlargement of power from the...construction which would make our powers boundless." After urging strong arguments against the dangers of a broad construction of the constitution, he adds,... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 542 pages
...dangerous, the one precise, the other inde6nite, I prefer that which is safe and precise;" and that he had "rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it isfound necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless." After... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 960 pages
...little debate as possible, and particularly so far as respects the Constitutional difficulty." * * * " I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation,...Let us not make it a blank paper by construction." Denying the extent of the treaty power, he observes, " Let us go on perfecting it, by adding, by way... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - African Americans - 1857 - 260 pages
...the surface upon the acquisition of Louisiana were presented to the mind of Jefferson, he wrote : "I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation,...possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it blank paper by construction. I say the same as to the opinion of those who consider the grant of the... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - Political Science - 1857 - 672 pages
...the surface upon the acquisition of Louisiana were presented to the mind of Jefferson, ho wrote : " I state will be of direct Celtic descendency. blank paper by construction. I sny the same as to tne opinion of those who consider the grant of the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - African Americans - 1857 - 260 pages
...the surface upon the acquisition of Louisiana were presented to the mind of Jefferson, he wrote : " I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation,...possession of a written Constitution. Let us (not make it blank paper by construction. I say the same as to the opinion of those who consider the grant of the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1857 - 688 pages
...the surface upon the acquisition of Louisiana were presented to the mind of Jefferson, he wrote : "I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation,...than to assume it by a construction which would make pur powers boundless. Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 760 pages
...other dangerous, the one precise, the other indefinite, I prefer that which is safe and precise. I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation,...to assume it by a construction which would make our power? boundless. Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1865 - 974 pages
...little debate as possible, and particularly so far as respects the Constitutional difficulty." * * * "I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation,...Let us not make it a blank paper by construction." Denying the extent of the treaty power, he observes, " Let us go on perfecting it, by adding, by way... | |
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I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless. Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it... 
