 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 952 pages
...import, we might question the application of the term, but should not controvert the principle. If they contend for that narrow construction which, in...cripple the government, and render it unequal to the object for which it is declared to be instituted, and to which the powers given, as fairly understood,... | |
 | Henry Baldwin - Constitutional history - 1837 - 230 pages
...jurists. Those who desired to extend too widely, or contract, too narrowly, the powers of the government, "in support of some theory not to be found in the constitution." "Powerful and ingenious minds, taking as postulates, that the 6 powers expressly granted to the government... | |
 | Henry Baldwin - Constitutional law - 1837 - 236 pages
...jurists. Those who desired to extend too widely, or contract too narrowly, the powers of the government, "in support of some theory not to be found in the constitution." "Powerful and ingenious minds, taking as postulates, that the 6 powers expressly granted to the government... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...import, we might question the application of the term, but should not controvert the principle. If they contend for that narrow construction which, in support of some theory- not to be found in the Constitu/. tion, would deny to the government those powers which the words of the grant, as usually... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1855 - 584 pages
...import, we might question the application of the terms, but should not controvert the principles " If they contend for that narrow construction, which,...which the words of the grant, as usually understood, impart ; and which are consistent with the general views and objects of the instrument ; for that narrow... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - Constitutional law - 1868 - 570 pages
...import, we might question the application of the terms, but should not controvert the principle. If they contend for that narrow construction which, in...would cripple the government, and render it unequal for the objects for which it is declared to be instituted, and to which the powers given, as fairly... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 672 pages
...import, we might question the application of the terms, but should not controvert the principle If they contend for that narrow construction which, in...would cripple the government and render it unequal for the objects for which it is declared to be instituted, and to which the powers given,. as fairly... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 1038 pages
...strict construction, in language which seems as If written for this time and occasion, he says: 'If they contend for that narrow construction, which,...would cripple the government, and render It unequal for the objects for which it was declared to be instituted, and to which the powers given as fairly... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 2042 pages
...strict construction, in language which seems as if written for this time and occasion, he says: 'If they contend for that narrow construction, which,...words of the grant as usually understood import, and whioli are consistent with the general views and objects of the instrument — for that narrow construction... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - Bar associations - 1913 - 282 pages
...replying to the proposition "That the powers should be strictly construed"; "If they contend for the narrow construction which, in support of some theory...would deny to the government those powers which the word of the grant, as usually understood, impart, and which are consistent with the general views an... | |
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If they contend for that narrow construction which, in support of some theory not to be found in the constitution, would deny to the government those powers which the words of the grant, as usually understood, import... 
