 | William Draper Lewis - Judges - 1907 - 588 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1907 - 526 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 - 1908 - 796 pages
...must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what the law said. If from the imperfection of human language,...serious doubts respecting the extent of any given law, it is a well-settled rule that the object for which it was given, especially when those objects... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard - United States - 1909 - 664 pages
...words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said. If, from the imperfections of human language, there should be serious doubts 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 Austin Beard - United States - 1914 - 694 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. If, from the imperfections of human language, there should be serious doubts respecting the extent of any given... | |
 | James Parker Hall - Constitutional law - 1910 - 438 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... | |
 | James De Witt Andrews - Law - 1911 - 442 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... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1912 - 702 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."*" We have seen the Supreme Court of the United States interpret the Sixth Article of the Constitution... | |
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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... 
