 | United States. Supreme Court, John Marshall - 1824 - 32 էջ
...cripple the government, and render it unequal to the objects for which it is declared to be instituted, and to which, the powers given, as fairly understood, render it competent, then we cannot preceive the propriety of this strict construction, nor adopt it as the rule by which the constitution... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - 1841 - 452 էջ
...cripple the government, and render it unequal to the objects for which it is declared to be instituted, and to which the powers given, as fairly understood,...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... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1855 - 584 էջ
...cripple the Government, and render it unequal to the objects for which it is declared to be instituted, and to which the powers given, as fairly understood,...construction, nor adopt it as the rule by which the Constitutution is to be expounded. Powerful and ingenious minds, taking as postulates, that the power... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - 1854 - 550 էջ
...cripple the Government, and render it unequal to the objects for which it is declared to be instituted, and to which the powers given, as fairly understood,...rule by which the Constitution is to be expounded." And again, at the close of the opinion, " Powerful and ingenious minds, taking, as postulates, that... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 774 էջ
...the application.* Words to be taken in their natural sense. — Chief Justice Marshall has said, " As men whose intentions require no concealment generally...aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the patriots who framed our Constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be Sturges vs. Crowninshield,... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1858 - 572 էջ
...cripple the Government, and render it unequal to the objects for which it is declared to be instituted, and to which the powers given, as fairly understood,...rule by which the Constitution is to be expounded.' And again : — ' Powerful and ingenious minds taking, as postulates, that the powers expressly granted... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - 1868 - 570 էջ
...cripple the government, and render it unequal for the objects for which it is declared to be instituted, and to which the powers given, as fairly understood,...rule by which the Constitution is to be expounded.'' § 268. Nor must it be supposed that these liberal and high national views which prevailed in the Supreme... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - 1868 - 672 էջ
...cripple the government and render it unequal for the objects for which it is declared to be instituted, and to which the powers given,. as fairly understood,...rule by which the Constitution is to be expounded. . . If, from the imperfection of human language, there should be serious doubts respecting the extent... | |
 | John Alexander Clark - 1872 - 596 էջ
...their intention in intelligible language, and to have done so in prescribing a written rule of conduct. "As men whose intentions require no concealment generally...and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey," legislatures "must be *understood to have em-• ployed words in their natural sense, and to have intended... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1874 - 572 էջ
...cripple the Government., and render it unequal to the objects for which it is declared to be instituted, and to which the powers given, as fairly understood,...it as the rule by which the Constitution is to be expounded.5 And again : — ' Powerful and ingenious minds taking, as postulates, that the powers expressly... | |
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... would cripple the government and render it unequal to the objects for which it is declared to be instituted, and to which the powers given, as fairly understood, render it competent: then we cannot perceive the propriety of this strict construction,... 
