 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1884 - 1012 pages
...shall hold their office for a term of twelve years." Article six, section five. The framers of the constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have employed these words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said. Nor can I doubt that... | |
 | 1885 - 890 pages
...men whose intentions require no concealment generally employ the words which most directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened...imperfection 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... | |
 | John A. Grier - 1885 - 550 pages
...generally employ the words which most directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the patriots who framed our Constitution, and the people...must be understood to have employed words in their naturai sense, and to have intended what they said." Gibbons vs. Ogden, 9th Wheaton, 188. In the construction... | |
 | 1886 - 706 pages
...men whose intentions require no concealment generally employ the words which most directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened...imperfection of human language, there should be serious doubts respecting the extent of any given power, it is a wellsettled rule that the objects for which... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - 1886 - 728 pages
...this subject is thus stated by Marshall, CJ, in Gibbons v. Ogden, 4 Wheat. 188. The framers of the Constitution and the people who adopted it "must be...sense, and to have intended what they have said." (Cooley's Const. Lim. 72.) We find nothing in the Constitution which shows that the word is used in... | |
 | Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman - 1886 - 722 pages
...intentions require no concealment generally employ the words which most directly and aptly express the Idea they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who...adopted It, must be understood to have employed words in iheir natural sense, and to have lntended what they have said. * * * \Ve know of no rule for construing... | |
 | 1897 - 1164 pages
...words have been employed in their natural and ordinary meaning. 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.' This is but saying that no forced or unnatural construction is to be put... | |
 | 1886 - 940 pages
...MARSHALL, CJ, in Qibboivt \. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 188, of the federal constitution: "The f ramera of the constitution, and the people who adopted it, must...employed words in their natural sense, and to have understood what they meant. The learned Justice COOLEY, in commenting on these words, observes, (we... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Animal Industry - 1886 - 702 pages
...men whoso intentions require no concealment generally employ the words which most directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened...framed our Constitution, and the people who adopted it, mast bo understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have... | |
 | 1888 - 972 pages
...words have been employed in their natural and ordinary meaning. MARSHALL, CJ, 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." Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 188; Settle v. Van Eorea, 49 NY 281; Cooley,... | |
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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... 
