 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1945 - 862 pages
...meaning be liquidated and ascertained by a series of particular discussions and adjudications. . . . Here, then, are three sources of vague and incorrect...the object, imperfection of the organ of conception, inaclequateness of the vehicle of ideas. Any one of these must produce a certain degree of obscurity.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Aviation insurance - 1960 - 1404 pages
...liquidated and ascertained by a series of particular discussions and adjudications. . . . Here, then, arc three sources of vague and Incorrect definitions:...the object, imperfection of the organ of conception, Inadequatenesx of the vehicle of Ideas. Any one of these must produce a certain degree of obscurity.... | |
 | 1696 pages
...inaccurate by the inaccuracy of the terms in which it is delivered. And this unavoidable inaccuracy must be greater or less, according to the complexity and novelty of the objects defined." "To decide, we turn to the words of the [document involved, here the Constitution] read in their historical... | |
 | John P. Diggins - History - 1986 - 430 pages
...inaccurate by the inaccuracy of the terms in which it is delivered. And this unavoidable inaccuracy must be greater or less, according to the complexity and...doubtful by the cloudy medium through which it is communicated.6 Contextualist historians espouse Wittgenstein's dictum that the meaning of all past... | |
 | Morton White - Philosophy - 1989 - 286 pages
...perfunctory. At one point Madison says, as he calls attention to the difficulty of defining terms, that "when the Almighty himself condescends to address...the cloudy medium through which it is communicated." And shortly thereafter, while expressing wonder about the fact that the Philadelphia Convention had... | |
 | Sanford Levinson, Steven Mailloux - Law - 1988 - 524 pages
...inaccurate by the inaccuracy of the terms in which it is delivered. And this unavoidable inaccuracy must be greater or less, according to the complexity and...the cloudy medium through which it is communicated. No clearer skepticism about plain meanings or textual objectivity could be extracted from the collected... | |
 | Michael James Lacey, Knud Haakonssen - History - 1992 - 492 pages
...American Library, 1961), 513. Subsequent references are to this edition. 10 So imprecise is language that "when the Almighty himself condescends to address...the cloudy medium through which it is communicated" (p. 229). On disagreement, see Federalist 10, p. 79. 11 For further discussion of the Federalist's... | |
 | Marshall L. DeRosa - History - 1991 - 200 pages
...complexities involved in the constitutional debates regarding federalism, Publius acknowledged that "there are three sources of vague and incorrect definitions:...indistinctness of the object, imperfection of the object of conception, and inadequateness of the vehicle of ideas. Any one of these must produce a certain... | |
 | William Lee Miller - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 316 pages
...for every complex idea, or so correct as not to include many equivocally denoting different ideas. When the Almighty himself condescends to address mankind...the cloudy medium through which it is communicated. The cloudy medium. Madison, though not as felicitous a writer as Jefferson nor as ready and fiery a... | |
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... the definition of them may be rendered inaccurate, by the inaccuracy of the terms in which it is delivered. And this unavoidable inaccuracy must be greater or less, according to the complexity and novelty of the objects defined. 
