 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 1172 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." Gibbons v. Ogden, eupra. No distinction is more popular to the common mind, or more clearly expressed... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 860 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." Gibbons v. Ogden, supra. Ño distinction is more popular to the common mind, or more clearly expressed... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1890 - 986 pages
...discern, that prescribes this rule. We do not, therefore, think ourselves justified in adopting it. * * * If, from the imperfection of human language, there...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... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1890 - 1014 pages
...frame rs 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." 1 This is but saying that no forced or unnatural construction is to be put upon their language ; and... | |
 | Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman - Constitutional law - 1890 - 184 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." — Marshall, C.-J., in Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat., i. State constitutions may prohibit to the States... | |
 | Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman - Constitutional law - 1890 - 192 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."—Marshall, C.-J., in Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat., l. State constitutions may prohibit to the... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 858 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 lan' guage, there should be serious doubts respecting the extent of any given power, it is a well-settled... | |
 | Missouri. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 940 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.' This is but saying that no forced or unnatural construction is to be put upon their language; and it... | |
 | James Bradley Thayer - Constitutional law - 1894 - 470 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 well-settled rule that the objects for which it was given, especially when those objects arc expressed... | |
 | Economics - 1895 - 596 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." 9 Wheat. 188. And in Rhode Island v. Massachusetts, where the question was whether a controversy between... | |
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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... 
