 | United States. Supreme Court, John Marshall - 1824 - 32 頁
...of this strict construction, nor adopt it as the rule by which the constitution is to be expounded. As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally...their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said. If, from the imperfection of faumaci language, there should be serious doubts respecting... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1824 - 990 頁
...of this strict construction, nor adopt it as the rule by which the constitution is to be expounded. As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally...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 tha... | |
 | Benjamin Lynde Oliver - 1832 - 428 頁
...they were conferred. See 9 Wheat. 188. The reason assigned is, that the framers of the constitution must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said. By article VI. of the constitution, treaties made agreeably to it, are also the supreme... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 564 頁
...of this strict construction, nor adopt it as the rule, by which the constitution is to be expounded. As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally...their natural sense, and to have intended, what they have said. If, from the imperfection of human language, there should be serious doubts respecting the... | |
 | Henry Baldwin - 1837 - 236 頁
...employing words which most directly and aptly expressed the idea they intended to convey, as well as the people who adopted it; must be understood to have...natural sense, and to have intended what they said. " If any doubts exist, respecting the extent of any given power, it is a settled rule that the objects... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 頁
...of this strict construction, nor adopt it as the rule by which the constitution is to be expounded.) As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally...their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said. If, from the imperfection of human language, there should be serious doubts respecting the... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - 1841 - 452 頁
...of this strict construction, nor adopt it as the rule by which the Constitution is to be expounded. As men whose intentions require no concealment generally...they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who formed our Constitution, and the people icho adopted it, must be understood to employ words in their... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1873 - 782 頁
...Chief Justice Marshall, in the case of Gibbons rx. Ogden, 9. Wheat. 188, says: "The framers of the constitution, and the people who adopted it, must...employed words in their natural sense, and to have understood what they meant." Story on Constitution, Se.c, 453, says : " The true sense in which words... | |
 | 1847 - 632 頁
...legislature repugnant to the constitution is absolutely void." — P. 167. " The framers of the constitution must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to hare intended what they have said ; and in construing the extent of the powers which it creates, there... | |
 | Charles Chauncey Burr - 1848 - 380 頁
...decision of the Supreme Court, ( Gibbons r. Ogden , 9 Wheat. 1,209,210.) "The framers of the constitution must be understood to have employed words in their...natural sense, and to have intended what they said, and in construing the extent of the powers which it creates, there is no other rule to construe the... | |
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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... 
