 ... framed our Constitution, 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 the imperfection of human language, there should be serious doubts respecting...  The American and English Encyclopedia of Law - Page 23edited by - 1894Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 952 pages
...a well settled rule, that the objects for which it was given, especially when those ob 1824. jects are expressed in the instrument itself, should have great influence in the construction. We know of no reason for excluding this rule from the present case. The grant does not convey power... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 990 pages
...language, there should be serious doubts respecting the exteet of any given power, it is a well settled rule, that the objects for which it was given, especially when those ob 1824. jects are expressed in the instrument itself, should have great influence in the construction.... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 540 pages
...language, there should be serious doubts respecting the extent of any given power, it is a well settled rule, that the objects, for which it was given, especially,...itself, should have great influence in the construction. We know of no reason for excluding this rule from the present case. The grant does not convey power,... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 564 pages
...understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended, what they have said. If, from the imperfection of human language, there...respecting the extent of any given power, it is a well settled rule, that the objects, for which it was given, especially, when those objects are expressed... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said. If, from the imperfection of human language, there...respecting the extent of any given power, it is a well settled rule that the objects for which it was given, especially when those objects are expressed... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...must be understood to employ words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said. If, from the imperfection of human language, there...respecting the extent of any given power, it is a well settled rule that the objects for which it was giveu, especially when those objects are expressed... | |
 | Commerce - 1841 - 604 pages
...If," says Chief Justice Marshall, in his masterly opinion in the celebrated case, of Gibbon vs. Ogden, "if, from the imperfection of human language, there...respecting the extent of any given power, it is a well settled rule that the objects for which it was given, especially when those objects arc expressed... | |
 | Commerce - 1841 - 598 pages
...serious doubts respecting the extent of any given power, it is a well settled rule that the objects lor which it was given, especially when those objects...should have great influence in the construction." The general object for which the power to pass bankrupt laws, and various ether enumerated powers were... | |
 | Paulino José Soares de Souza Uruguai (Visconde do) - Brazil - 1865 - 518 pages
...imperfection of human language there should be any serious doubts respecting the extent of any given power, the objects for which it was given, especially when...itself, should have great influence in the construction. » (*) C) E' a regra n.° i deste §. — 9 — § õ.° Poderes por inducção 0u comprehcnsào Os... | |
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