 | 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 str.
...this strict construction, nor adopt it as the rule by which the Constitution is to be expounded. . . If, from the imperfection of human language, there...well settled rule, that the objects for which it was given, especially when those objects are expressed in the instrument itself, should have great influence... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - 1871 - 692 str.
...patriots who framed our Constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended...serious doubts respecting the extent of any given powers, it is a well settled rule that the objects for which it was given, especially when those objects... | |
 | John Alexander Clark - 1872 - 596 str.
...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 what they have said," 9 Wh. 188 ; and the intention of the lawmaker is the law itself, when it is indicated by the use of... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1873 - 786 str.
...patriots who framed our Constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended...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... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1922 - 848 str.
...patriots who 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." This language of the people in the constitution, "equal protection of the laws," supplemented by the... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1874 - 750 str.
...patriots who 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." f Transposition of Clauses. — In regard to the transposition of sentences in order to arrive at the... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - 1913 - 282 str.
...patriots who framed the Constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended...well settled rule that the objects for which it was given, especially when those objects are expressed in the instrument itself, should have great influence... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1882 - 798 str.
...patriots who framed our coustitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended...respecting the extent of any given power, it is a wellsettled rule that the objects *for which [*189 it was given, especially when those objects are... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1882 - 912 str.
...Thcframers of the 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." Cooley's Const. Lim. 72. We find nothing in the Constitution which shows that the word is used in the... | |
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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... 
