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... Atlantic Reporter - Page 661894Full view - About this book
| United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - African Americans - 1857 - 260 pages
...induce the court to give to the words of the Constitution a more liberal construction in their favor than they were intended to bear when the instrument...reflex of the popular opinion or passion of the day. This court was not created by the Constitution for such purposes. Higher and graver trusts have been... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - African Americans - 1857 - 254 pages
...words, but with the same meaning and intent with which it spoke when it came from the hands of ita framers, and was voted on and adopted by the people...reflex of the popular opinion or passion of the day. This court was not created by the Constitution for such purposes. Higher and graver trusts have been... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - African Americans - 1857 - 260 pages
...intent with which it spoke when it came from the hands of its framers, and was voted on and ^iopted by the people of the United States. Any other rule...reflex of the popular opinion or passion of the day. This court was not created by the Constitution for such purposes. Higher and graver trusts have been... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1857 - 694 pages
...with which it spoke when it came from the hands of its framers, and was voted on .and adopted bythe people of the United States. Any other rule of construction...reflex of the popular opinion or passion of the day. This court was not created by the Constitution for such purposes. Higher and graver trusts have been... | |
| Michael W. Cluskey - Political Science - 1857 - 672 pages
...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 of the day. This court was not created by the Constitution for such purposes. Higher and graver trusts have been... | |
| Henry Sherman - Slavery - 1858 - 212 pages
...rights to the citizen ; and as long as it continues to exist in its present form, it speaks not only the same words, but with the same meaning and intent...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 — "... | |
| John Codman Hurd - Conflict of laws - 1862 - 854 pages
...induce the court to give to the words of the Constitution a more liberal construction in their favor than they were intended to bear when the instrument...reflex of the popular opinion or passion of the day. This court was not created by the Constitution for such purposes. Higher and graver trusts have been... | |
| John Codman Hurd - Conflict of laws - 1862 - 888 pages
...its present form, it speaks not only in the same words, biit with the same meaning and intent witli which it spoke when it came from the hands of its...reflex of the popular opinion or passion of the day. This court was not created by the Constitution for such purposes. Higher and graver trusts have been... | |
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