 | Leonard W. Levy - 462 sidor
...but with the same meaning and intent with which it spoke when it came from the hands of its frainers, and was voted on and adopted by the people of the...reflex of the popular opinion or passion of the day. This court was not created by the Constitution for such purposes. before Roe v. Wade, He seems not... | |
 | Robert Johnson (Jr.) - 1998 - 552 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. This court was not created by the Constitution for such purposes. Higher and graver trusts have been... | |
 | William M. Wiecek - 1998 - 296 sidor
...same in words but the same in meaning, 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.'' From this, Sutherland drew the conclusion that the meaning of the Constitution is "changeless." He... | |
 | Bruce A. Clark - 1999 - 406 sidor
...remains unaltered, it must be construed now as it was understood at the time of its adoption . . . Any other rule of construction would abrogate the...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... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - 1999 - 212 sidor
...remains unaltered, it must be construed now as it was understood at the time of its adoption. . . . Any other rule of construction would abrogate the...reflex of the popular opinion or passion of the day. This court was not created by the Constitution for such purposes" (19 How. 426 [1857]; OI, pp. 13-14).... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - 2004 - 574 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. We have already quoted Madison, writing many years before to Henry Lee, endorsing the view that the... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - 2000 - 488 sidor
...the same meaning and intent with which it spoke when it came from the hands of its framers, and_was voted on and adopted by the people of the United States....reflex of the popular opinion or passion of the day.'" And again at page 451 : "Among those matters which are implied, though not expressed, is that the Nation... | |
 | John W. Johnson - 2001 - 536 sidor
...more liberal construction . . . than they were intended to bear when the instrument was framed. . . . Any other rule of construction would abrogate the...reflex of the popular opinion or passion of the day." The Constitution, in Taney's view, might change, but the justices could not change it; they could only... | |
 | Paul Finkelman - 2002 - 488 sidor
...intent the only legitimate modality of constitutional interpretation,78 Taney goes on to insist that "Any other rule of construction would abrogate the...mere reflex of the popular opinion or passion of the day."79 If one wishes to attack Dred Scott, therefore, an obvious question is whether one must go after... | |
 | William M. Wiecek - 2001 - 300 sidor
...of the United States. Any other rule of construction would abrogate the judicial character of tll is court, and make it the mere reflex of the popular opinion or passion of the day. ' ' From this, Sutherland drew the conclusion that the meaning of the Constitution is "changeless."... | |
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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... 
