 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia - 1959 - 564 sidor
...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...reflex of the popular opinion or passion of the day." I respectfully request that this letter be inserted in the record of the hearings at the end of my... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia - 1959 - 548 sidor
...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...reflex of the popular opinion or passion of the day." I respectfully request that this letter be inserted in the record of the hearings at the end of my... | |
 | 1919 - 1826 sidor
...but with the same meaning and intent with which it spoke when it came from the hands of its f ramers, and was voted on and adopted by the people of the...reflex of the popular opinion or passion of the day.' "It must also be remembered that the framers of the Constitution were not mere visionaries, toying... | |
 | Edward S. Corwin, Harold William Chase, Craig R. Ducat - 1978 - 694 sidor
...voted on and adopted by the people of the United States. Any other rule of construction would abrogote the judicial character of this Court and make it the...reflex of the popular opinion or passion of the day." — CHIEF JUSTICE TANEY. In the Dred Scott Case, 19 Howard 393 (1857) "WE read its [the Constitution's]... | |
 | United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations - 1981 - 272 sidor
...words, but with the same meaning and intent with which it spoke when it came from the hands of the framers, and was voted on and adopted by the people...mere reflex of the popular opinion or passion of the day;'4 while, to Chief Justice John Marshall, it was fluid and living: . . . [this] Constitution [is]... | |
 | Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1981 - 340 sidor
...in their favor than they were intended to bear when the instrument was framed and adopted." To do so "would abrogate the judicial character of this court,...reflex of the popular opinion or passion of the day." The disingenuousness of this passage is too evident. Taney had repeatedly used evidence of unfavorable... | |
 | Michael Kent Curtis - 1986 - 292 sidor
...with the same meaning and intent with which it spoke when it came from the hands of its framers. . . . Any other rule of construction would abrogate the...mere reflex of the popular opinion or passion of the day.77 The result in the Dred Scott decision is abhorrent. So it is easy to treat the decision as proof... | |
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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... 
