 | Illinois State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1901 - 780 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...imperfection of human language, there should be serious doubt respecting the extent of auy given power, it is a well settled rule that the objects for which... | |
 | Charles Henry Butler - Constitutional law - 1902 - 850 pages
...patriots who framed our constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to Lave 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... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - English language - 1902 - 476 pages
...understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said. 25 If, from the imperfection of human language, there...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 are expressed... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - English language - 1902 - 490 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. 25 If, from the imperfection of human language, there should be serious doubts respecting the extent... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - English language - 1902 - 474 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. 25 If, from the imperfection of human language, there should be serious doubts respecting the extent... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - Biography & Autobiography - 1903 - 610 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... | |
 | Van Vechten Veeder - Forensic orations - 1903 - 656 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 are expressed... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 814 pages
...construction. Mahon v. Justice, 127 US 715 ; Lascelles v. Georgia, 148 US 542 ; Ex parte Reggel, 114 US 642. " If, from the imperfection of human language, there...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 are expressed... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1903 - 828 pages
...imperfection of h uman language, there should be serious doubts respecting the extent of any givengiven power, it is a 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... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - Biography & Autobiography - 1903 - 606 pages
...statesmen who framed 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." ' One of the strongest illustrations of this principle is afforded by a case decided by the Supreme... | |
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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... 
