...concealment, generally employ the words which most directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed our constitution,...what they have said. If, from the imperfection of faumaci language, there should be serious doubts respecting the extent of any given power, it is a...

...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 to have-employed words in. their natural sense, and to .have intended what they have said. If, from tha...

...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. If, from tha imperfection of human language, there should be serious doubts respecting the extect of any given...

...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 also the supreme law of the...

...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...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 rule that the...

...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...power, it is a well settled rule that the objects lor which it was given, especially when those objects are expressed in the instrument itself, should...

...Chief Justice Marshall, in the case of Gibbons rx. Ogden, 9. Wheat. 188, says: "The framers of the constitution, and the people who adopted it, must...employed words in their natural sense, and to have understood what they meant." Story on Constitution, Se.c, 453, says : " The true sense in which words...

...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...

...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 rule to construe...

...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...sense, and to have intended what they have said." Quoting this language, Judge Cooley, in his Constitutional Limitations, said at page 73 (6th Ed.) :...