 | United States. Department of State. Bureau of Rolls and Library - 1905 - 628 halaman
...so long as the the" stricken out] policy of that rule could be regarded as in any degree unexpired. As a guide in expounding and applying the provisions of the Constitution, the debates ["& decisions" stricken out] and incidental decisions of the Convention can have no authoritative character.... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Rolls and Library - 1905 - 628 halaman
...so long as the the" stricken out] policy of that rule could be regarded as in any degree unexpired. As a guide in expounding and applying the provisions of the Constitution, the debates ["& decisions" stricken out] and incidental decisions of the Convention can have no authoritative character.... | |
 | James Madison - 1910 - 698 halaman
...not a little stimuso long as the policy of that rule could be regarded as in any degree unexpired. As a guide in expounding and applying the provisions...origin and progress of their political Institutions, & as a source perhaps of some lights on the Science of Gov". the legitimate meaning of the Instrument... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention - 1911 - 700 halaman
...was spoken in it;" so long as the policy of that rule could be regarded as in any degree unexpired. As a guide in expounding and applying the provisions...to trace the origin and progress of their political Insitutions, & as a source parhaps of some lights on the Science of Govt. the legitimate meaning of... | |
 | James Brown Scott - 1920 - 638 halaman
...Convention, which proposed, but in the State Conventions, which accepted and ratified the Constitution.1 As a guide in expounding and applying the provisions...origin and progress of their political Institutions, & as a source perhaps of some lights on the Science of Govt. the legitimate meaning of the Instrument... | |
 | James Brown Scott - 1920 - 640 halaman
...Convention, which proposed, but in the State Conventions, which accepted and ratified the Constitution.1 As a guide in expounding and applying the provisions...character. However desirable it be that they should be pre1 James Madison in the House of Representatives. Annals of Congress, Fourth Congress, First Session,... | |
 | Charles Warren - 1925 - 328 halaman
...1821. This letter stated as to Madison's Notes on the Federal Convention: "as a guide in explaining and applying the provisions of the Constitution, the...the science of government, the legitimate meaning must be derived from the text itself." See also Madison to ML Hurlbert, May, 1830, ibid., IX, 370;... | |
 | 1927 - 286 halaman
...This view, however, has not been held by the Courts. Madison stated his opinion to Ritchie, thus : As a guide in expounding and applying the provisions...perhaps of some lights on the science of government, its legitimate meaning of the instrument must be derived from the text itself; or, if a key is to be... | |
 | Jerald C. Brauer - 1987 - 280 halaman
...illegitimate exercise, from the viewpoint of the crafters of the Constitution. Indeed, James Madison stated, "As a guide in expounding and applying the provisions...decisions of the Convention can have no authoritative character."40 Thus, from this perspective, Justice Hugo Black, author of Everson, is no more a knave... | |
 | Sanford Levinson, Steven Mailloux - 1988 - 524 halaman
...the controversial part of the proceedings of its framers could be turned to no improper account. ... As a guide in expounding and applying the provisions...decisions of the Convention can have no authoritative character."6 Madison employed the distinction between public meaning and private intent to differentiate... | |
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As a guide in expounding and applying the provisions of the Constitution, the debates and incidental decisions of the Convention can have no authoritative character. However desirable it be that they should be preserved as a gratification to the laudable... 
