We know of no rule for construing the extent of such powers, other than is given by the language of the instrument which confers them, taken in connection with the purposes for which they were conferred. The words are : " Congress shall have power to... I. Statistics in Colleges - Page 61by Carroll Davidson Wright - 1888 - 80 pagesFull view - About this book
| United States. Supreme Court - 1824 - 990 pages
...never be exercised by the people themselves, but must be placed in the hands of agents, or lie dormant. We know of no rule for construing the extent of such...language of the instrument which confers them, taken in connexion with the purposes for which' they were conferred. The words are, " Congress shall have power... | |
| Joseph Story - 1833 - 564 pages
...never be exercised by the people themselves, but must be placed in the hands of agents, or lie dormant. We know of no rule for construing the extent of such...language of the instrument, which confers them, taken in connexion with the purposes, for which they were conferred." 1 1 See also Id. 222, and Mr. Chief Justice... | |
| John Marshall - 1839 - 762 pages
...never be exercised by the people themselves, but must be placed in the hands of agents, or lie dormant. We know of no rule for construing the extent of such...language of the instrument which confers them, taken in connexion with the purposes for which they were conferred. The words are, " Congress shall have power... | |
| 1844 - 888 pages
...not permit us to give the long extracts which illustrate these points. In 9 Wheaton, 1, he says: " We know of no rule for construing the extent of such...taken in connection with the purposes for which they were conferred." Speaking of an ordinary statute, he says, 12 Wheaton, 151 : " There is always difficulty... | |
| Benjamin Robbins Curtis, United States. Supreme Court - 1864 - 772 pages
...defines, the powers granted by it. While we are not advocates for a latitudinons construction, yet " we know of no rule for construing the extent of such...instrument which confers them, taken in connection with the purpose for which they are conferred." Before proceeding to examine the more prominent and plausible... | |
| Lewis Cass - 1856 - 96 pages
...origin in common sense;" and, as the Supreme Court said, tke extent of powers "should be determined by the language of the instrument which confers them,...taken in connection with the purposes for which they were conferred." I need not pursue this investigation ; but applying the principles thus developed... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1866 - 656 pages
...584) ; that there is no safe rule for construing the extent or limitation of powers in a constitution other than is given by the language of the instrument...taken in connection with the purposes for which they were conferred (Gibboris agt. Gyelin, 9 Wheat. 188), and that the opposition between the constitution... | |
| 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 pages
...never be executed by the people themselves, but must be placed in the hands of agents or lie dormant We know of no rule for construing the extent of such...taken in connection with the purposes for which they were conferred." No apology is necessary for quoting thus liberally from this profound jurist and learned... | |
| United States. Congress - 1871 - 708 pages
...referring to the grants of power contained in the Constitution, in Gibbons vs. Ogden, t> Wbeaton, says: "We know of no rule for construing the extent of such...instrument which confers them, taken in connection with tho purposes lor which they were oouf erred." Applying this rule of interpretation to the fourteenth... | |
| Joseph Story - 1873 - 786 pages
...never be exercised by the people themselves, but must be placed in the hands of agents, or lie dormant. We know of no rule for construing the extent of such...taken in connection with the purposes for which they were conferred."1 1 See also Id. 222, and Mr. Chief Justice Marshall's opinion in Ogden v. Saunders,... | |
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