| Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 956 pages
...In endeavoring to ascertain the true construction of these constitutional provisions, we are bound to give effect to the intent of the people in adopting it. But this intent is to be found in the instrument itself, and it is to be presumed that language has... | |
| Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 652 pages
...not permitted on their own initiative to propose amendments to the Constitution. Judge Cooley says, "The object of construction, as applied to a written Constitution, is to give effect to the intention of the people in adopting it. In the case of written laws, it is the intention of the law-giver... | |
| Carroll Davidson Wright - Economics - 1888 - 96 pages
...times in which it was passed. (Aldridge et. al. vs. Williams, 3 Howard, 24). The object of construction is to give effect to the intent of the people in adopting it. But this intent is to be found in the instrument itself. (Cooley's Limitations, p. 68.) To adopt the... | |
| Illinois. Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities - Public welfare - 1888 - 312 pages
...above quoted was intended to be self.acting. It required no legislation to become operative. * * * The object of construction, as applied to a written constitution, is to givo effect to the intent of the people in adopting it. * * * In this case there is, in one sense,... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 1012 pages
...constitution above quoted wasintended to be self-acting. It requires no legislation to become operative The object of construction, as applied to a written...effect to the intent of the people in adopting it In this case there is, in one sense, no ambiguity. It is plain that no public funds can be used for sectarian... | |
| Marietta Holley - Christian women - 1890 - 466 pages
...at any subsequent time." This same great author says : " Intent goverms. The object of construction applied to a written constitution is to give effect...intent of the people in adopting it. In the case of written laws it is the intent of the lawgiver that is to be enforced. " But it must not be forgotten... | |
| Marietta Holley - Christian women - 1890 - 464 pages
...great author says : " Intent goverms. The object of construction applied to a written Ťon. stitution is to give effect to the intent of the people in adopting it. In the case of written laws it is the intent of the lawgiver that is to be enforced. " But it must not be forgotten... | |
| West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 858 pages
...but reasonably certain, that a majority of the arbitrators could and would agree if they all acted. In the case of all written laws it is the intent of the lawgiver that is to be enforced. " It is a rule of construction that the whole is to be examined, with a view to... | |
| John Tyler Christian - Baptism - 1891 - 272 pages
...right to add to or take away from its meaning. " (On Constit. Lira. 68, 70.) Mr. Cooly continues: " In the case of all written laws it is the intent of the lawgiver that it is to be enforced. But this intent is to be found in the instrument itself. It is to be presumed... | |
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