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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... "
Wisconsin Reports - Page 280
by Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold, Arnold LeBell - 1895
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The Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the Case of ...

United States. Supreme Court, John Marshall - Exclusive and concurrent legislative powers - 1824 - 32 pages
...directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed our constitution, and the people who adopted it, must...employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said. If, from the imperfection of faumaci language, there should be serious...
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The Rights of an American Citizen: With a Commentary on State Rights, and on ...

Benjamin Lynde Oliver - Citizenship - 1832 - 428 pages
...they were conferred. See 9 Wheat. 188. The reason assigned is, that the framers of the constitution must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said. By article VI. of the constitution, treaties made agreeably to it, are...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a ..., Volume 1

Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 540 pages
...directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey ; the enlightened patriots, who framed our constitution, and the people, who adopted it, must...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...
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A General View of the Origin and Nature of the Constitution and Government ...

Henry Baldwin - Constitutional law - 1837 - 236 pages
...employing words which most directly and aptly expressed the idea they intended to convey, as well as the people who adopted it; must be understood to have...employed words, in their natural sense, and to have intended what they said. " If any doubts exist, respecting the extent of any given power, it is a settled...
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The Writings of John Marshall, Late Chief Justice of the United States, Upon ...

John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed our constitution, and the people who adopted it, must...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...
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Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity Argued and Determined in ..., Volume 27

Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 782 pages
...and ordinary meaning. Chief Justice Marshall, in the case of Gibbons rx. Ogden, 9. Wheat. 188, says: "The framers of the constitution, and the people who...natural sense, and to have understood what they meant." Story on Constitution, Se.c, 453, says : " The true sense in which words are used in a statute, is...
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Essays, Theological and Miscellaneous, Reprinted from the Princeton Review ...

Presbyterian Church - 1847 - 632 pages
...legislature repugnant to the constitution is absolutely void." — P. 167. " The framers of the constitution must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to hare intended what they have said ; and in construing the extent of the powers which it creates, there...
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The Nineteenth Century, Volume 2

Charles Chauncey Burr - Periodicals - 1848 - 380 pages
...decision of the Supreme Court, ( Gibbons r. Ogden , 9 Wheat. 1,209,210.) "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...
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Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan, Volume 120

Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 808 pages
...Marshall said : "The framers of the Constitution, and the people who 100 120 MICHIGAN REPORTS. [Apr. adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said." Quoting this language, Judge Cooley, in his Constitutional Limitations,...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of ..., Volume 5

Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 648 pages
...guidance of posterity." Thus, Marshall, CJ, in relation to the Constitution of the United States : " The framers of the constitution, and the people who...adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in then1 natural sense, and to have intended what they said." Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 188. So the dissenting...
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