 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Court rules - 1812 - 486 pages
...this case, a negative or exclusive sense must be given to them, or they have no operation at all. It cannot be presumed that any clause in the constitution...construction is inadmissible, unless the words require it. *If the solicitude of the convention, respecting our * 175 peace with foreign powers, induced a provision... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1821 - 738 pages
...must be given to them, or they have no operation at all." " It cannot be presumed," adds the Court, " that any clause in the constitution is intended to...construction is inadmissible, unless the words require it." . The whole reasoning of the Court proceeds upon the idea that the affirmative words of the clause... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1821 - 726 pages
...must be given to them, or they have no operation at all." " It cannot be presumed," adds the Court, " that any clause in the constitution is intended to...without effect ; and, therefore, such a construction is inad- 102i. missible, unless the words require it." The whole reasoning of the Court proceeds upon... | |
 | 1821 - 438 pages
...no'operation at all." "It cannot be presumed, adds the court, that any clause in the constitution Uintended to be without effect; and, therefore, such a construction is inadmissible unless the words require it." 'The whole reasoning of the court prdceeds upon the idea that the affirmative words of the clause,... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...this case a negative or exclusive sense must be given to them, or they have no operation at all. \ It cannot be presumed that any clause in the constitution...construction is inadmissible, unless the words require it.), If the solicitude of the convention respecting our peace with foreign powers induced a provision that... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1851 - 672 pages
...revises proceedings already instituted, and does not institute them ; and that to enable the court to issue a mandamus, it must be shown to be an exercise of appellate jurisdiction, or be necessary to enable the court to exercise such jurisdiction ; and it was held, in pursuance of these... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1851 - 706 pages
...original jurisdiction where the constitution had declared it should be appellate. To enable the court to issue a mandamus, it must be shown to be an exercise, or *necessary to an *323 exercise, of appellate jurisdiction. The Supreme Court may accordingly issue... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional law - 1854 - 674 pages
...this case, a negative or exclusive sense must be given to them, or they have no operation at all. " It cannot be presumed that any clause in the Constitution...construction is inadmissible, unless the words require it. " If the solicitude of the convention, respecting our peacex with foreign powers, induced a provision... | |
 | John Fulton - Constitutional history - 1864 - 582 pages
...this case a negative or exclusive sense must be given to them, or they have no operation at all. " It cannot be presumed that any clause in the Constitution...construction is inadmissible, unless the words require it. " If the solicitude of the convention, respecting our peace with foreign powers, induced a provision... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 594 pages
...cannot be presumed," adds the court, " that any clause in the constitution is intended to [ * 401 ] be without * effect ; and, therefore, such a construction is inadmissible, unless the words require it." The whole reasoning of the court proceeds upon the idea that the affirmative words of the clause giving... | |
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... appellate ; the distribution of jurisdiction, made in the Constitution, is form without substance. Affirmative words are often, in their operation, negative of other objects than those affirmed ; and in this case a negative or exclusive sense must... 
