 | West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Edgar P. Rucker - 1889 - 974 halaman
...Marshall, Chief Justice, says : "The framers of the Constitution, and the people who adopted it, must he understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have understood what they meant." Gibbons v. Oyclcn, 9 Wheat. 188; Settle v. Van Evrea, 49 NY 281 ; Cooley... | |
 | Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman - 1890 - 184 halaman
...intentions require no concealment generally employ the words which most directly and aptly express the idea they * intend to convey, the enlightened patriots...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... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1890 - 1014 halaman
...been employed in their natural and ordinary meaning. As Marshall, Ch. J., says : The frame rs of the constitution, and the people who adopted it, " must...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 - 1890 - 192 halaman
...respectively or to the people," evidently involves a consideration of the possibility that the ' " As men whose intentions require no concealment generally...the words which most directly and aptly express the idea they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed our Constitution, and the people who... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1891 - 858 halaman
...of this strict construction, nor adopt it as the rule by which the Constitution ia to be expounded. As men whose intentions require no concealment generally...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 - 1917 - 940 halaman
...have been employed in their natural and ordinary meaning. As MARSHALL, J., says: The framers of the Constitution and the people who adopted it 'must be...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... | |
 | Hampton Lawrence Carson - 1892 - 472 halaman
...by its framers." The rule is stated in another form in Gibbons v. Ogden* by the Chief Justice: ' ' The enlightened patriots who framed our Constitution...their natural sense, and to have intended what they said. . . . We know of no rule of construing the extent of such powers other than is given by the language... | |
 | Patrick Francis Quigley - 1894 - 642 halaman
...construction as laid down by the supreme court of the United States : " 1st. 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 than to... | |
 | 1895 - 596 halaman
...reasonable construction. In Gibbons v. Ogden Mr. Chief Justice Marshall, with his usual felicity, said: "As men, whose intentions require no concealment,...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... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold, Arnold LeBell - 1895 - 778 halaman
...signification of the words employed." Cooley, Const. Lim. (1st ed.), 57. Says MARSHALL, CJ: "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." Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 188. When we examine the very clear and direct... | |
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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... 
