 | Robert M. S. McDonald - 2004 - 264 Seiten
...the other dangerous, the one precise, the other indefinite, I prefer that which is safe & precise. I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation...construction which would make our powers boundless. . . . Nothing is more likely than that their enumeration of powers is defective. This is the ordinary... | |
 | R. B. Bernstein - 2004 - 258 Seiten
...the other dangerous, the one precise, the other indefinite, I prefer that which is safe & precise. I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation,...where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a con172 struction which would make our powers boundless. Our peculiar security is in possession of a... | |
 | Jeremy A. Rabkin - 2005 - 366 Seiten
...the other dangerous, the one precise, the other indefinite, I prefer that which is safe & precise. I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation,...our powers boundless. Our peculiar security is in possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. I say the same... | |
 | Garry Wills - 2005 - 298 Seiten
...power; but that he will yield to his friends if they have other views. It is done in one easy slide: Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written...us not make it a blank paper by construction ... I confess, then, I think it important in the present case, to set an example against broad construction... | |
 | Jefferson Powell - 2005 - 261 Seiten
...Among those views was an emphasis on the threat to the Constitution posed by the interpretive process: "Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written...Let us not make it a blank paper by construction." ' Jefferson wrote his opinion for President George Washington on a question of great importance to... | |
 | Keene F. Tiedemann - 2005 - 207 Seiten
...with strict constructionists in accordance with the standards promoted by Thomas Jefferson who said, "Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written...Let us not make it a blank paper by construction." 59 Indeed, while he was President, Jefferson was quite explicit regarding the appropriate interpretation... | |
 | Everett Somerville Brown - 2005 - 265 Seiten
...Bad rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, when it is found necessary, than to assume by a construction which would make our powers boundless....is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let ns not make it a blank paper by construction, I say the same as to the opinion of those ivho consider... | |
 | H. Jefferson Powell - 2005 - 262 Seiten
...Among those views was an emphasis on the threat to the Constitution posed by the interpretive process: "Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written...Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction."5 Jefferson wrote his opinion for President George Washington on a question of great... | |
 | Michael G. Kammen - 582 Seiten
...other dangerous, the one precise, the other indefinite, I prefer that which is safe and precise. I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation,...Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. . . . Let us go on then perfecting it, by adding, by way of amendment to the Constitution, those powers... | |
 | David E. Guinn - 2006 - 242 Seiten
...government, more than for a faithful exercise of its powers" (Berger 1977, 364). Or as Jefferson put it: "Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written...Let us not make it a blank paper by construction" (Berger 1977, 364). Second, in the American system of government, the courts are limited to the role... | |
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When an instrument admits two constructions, the one safe, the other dangerous, the one precise, the other indefinite, I prefer that which is safe and precise. I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than... 
