 | Charles Grove Haines - Judicial power - 2001 - 180 pages
...powers given, as fairly understood, render it competent; then we cannot perceive the propriety of this construction, nor adopt it as the rule by which the Constitution is to be expounded. 3 Powerful and ingenious minds, taking as postulates, that the powers expressly granted to the government... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 705 pages
...None has been pointed out; none exists. What is meant by "a strict construction"? Is it "that narrow construction, which would cripple the government and...unequal to the objects for which it is declared to be instituted,1 and to which the powers given, as fairly understood, render it competent "? The court... | |
 | Indiana State Bar Association (1916- ) - Bar associations - 1901 - 190 pages
...port, and which are consistent with the general views and objects of the instrument ; for that narrow construction, which would cripple the government,...as fairly understood, render it competent ; then we can not perceive the propriety of this strict construction, nor adopt it as a rule by which the constitution... | |
 | United States - 1904 - 1228 pages
...court, in which he held that the commerce clause of the Constitution should not have a strict or narrow construction which would cripple the Government and render it unequal to the objects for which it had been established. He further held that the object for which the power was given should be considered... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 776 pages
...clause of the federal Constitution, declared that the Constitution should not be held to "that narrow construction which would cripple the government and render it unequal to the obejcts for which it is declared to be instituted, and to which the powers given, as fairly understood,... | |
 | United States - 1824 - 476 pages
...and render it unequal to the • >)»jrcts for which it is declared to be instituted, and v> uhioh the powers given, as fairly understood, render it competent, then we cannot precoive the propriety of this strict construction, nor adopt it as the rule i/y which the constitution... | |
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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... 
