 | Iowa. General Assembly - Iowa - 1884 - 1392 pages
...patriots who framed our constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended...they have said. If, from the imperfection of human lariguage, there should be serious doubts respecting the extent of any given power, It is a well settled... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 948 pages
...the framersof the constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said. It is no answer to this view of the subject to say: "If the legislature can say that a greater number... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1012 pages
...framers of the constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have employed these words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said. Nor can I doubt that they were deliberately used, and for a wise and beneficent purpose. If their universally... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1006 pages
...the framers of the constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said. CoL] {, 'S1°° °f °f!lt ALEXANDER v. PEOPLE. 97 f tliof!lt t° effect the same, and thereby render... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 890 pages
...patriots who framed our constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended...well settled rule that the objects for which it was given, especially when those objects are expressed in the instrument itself, should have great influence... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Animal Industry - Veterinary medicine - 1886 - 702 pages
...patriots who framed our Constitution, and the people who adopted it, mast bo understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended...respecting the extent of any given power, it is a wellsettled rule that the objects for which it was given, especially when those objects are expressed... | |
 | 1886 - 706 pages
...patriots who framed our Constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended...respecting the extent of any given power, it is a wellsettled rule that the objects for which it was given, especially when those objects are expressed... | |
 | Georgia Bar Association - Bar associations - 1908 - 308 pages
...patriots who framed our Constitution and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense and to have intended what they have said." I submit that this is true of that part of the written instrument which confers powers upon the Executive... | |
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As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally employ the words, which most directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey ; the enlightened patriots, who framed our constitution, and the people, who adopted it, must be understood... 
