 | Samuel Nott - 1857 - 140 страници
...while it remains unaltered, it must be construed now as it was understood at the time of its adoption. Any other rule of construction would abrogate the...and make it the mere reflex of the popular opinion and passion of the day." f Surely these extracts show plainly that the phrase in question was not uttered... | |
 | Samuel Nott - 1857 - 154 страници
...while it remains unaltered, it must be construed now as it was understood at the time of its adoption. Any other rule of construction would abrogate the...and make it the mere reflex of the popular opinion and passion of the day." t Surely these extracts show plainly that the phrase in question was not uttered... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - 1857 - 672 страници
...meaning and intent with which it spoke when it came from the hands of its framers, and was voted on and adopted by the people of the United States. Any ] other rule of construction would abrogate the I judical character of this court, and make it I the mere reflex of the popular opinion or passion... | |
 | Henry Sherman - 1858 - 212 страници
...meaning and intent with which it spoke when it came from the hands of its framers, and was voted on and adopted by the people of the United States : any...reflex of the popular opinion or passion of the day." To all of which I have already assented. And agfein, on page 38, applying this rule, he says — "... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1859 - 752 страници
...meaning and intent, with which it spoke when it came from the hands of its framers, and was voted on and adopted by the people of the United States. Any...other rule of construction would abrogate the judicial power of this court, and make it the mere reflex of the popular opinion or passion of the day. This... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1859 - 740 страници
...meaning and intent, with which it spoke when it came from the hands of its framers, and was voted on and adopted by the people of the United States. Any...other rule of construction would abrogate the judicial power of this court, and make it the mere reflex of the popular opinion or passion of the day. This... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - 1860 - 830 страници
...adopted bj the people of the United States. Any other rule of construction would abrogate the judical character of this court, and make it the mere reflex of the popular opinion or pa.»sion of the day. This court was not created by the Constitution for such purposes. Higher and... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - 1862 - 888 страници
...meaning and intent witli which it spoke when it came from the hands of its framers, and was voted on and adopted by the people of the United States. Any...Higher and graver trusts have been confided to it, arid it must not falter in the path of duty. " What the construction was at that time, we think can... | |
 | 1865 - 940 страници
...meaning and intent, with which it spoke when it came from the hands of its framers, and was voted on and adopted by the people of the United States. Any...to it ; and it must not falter in the path of duty ! " Would to God it had not faltered in the path of duty, that it had beeй true to those higher and... | |
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Government, and reserves and secures the same rights and privileges to the citizen; and as long as it continues to exist in its present form, it speaks not only in the same words, but with the same meaning and intent with which it spoke when it came from... 
