 | James Madison - United States - 1865 - 754 pages
...to be sought elsewhere, it must be, not in the opinions or intentions of the body which planned and proposed the Constitution, but in the sense attached...it received all the authority which it possesses. Such being the course of my reflections, I have suffered a concurrence and continuance of particular... | |
 | James Madison - United States - 1865 - 768 pages
...Ac.. 74. 104. A key to the legitimate meaning of the Constitution to be sought in the text itself: and in the sense attached to it by the People in their respective Stale Conventions which ratified it. III. 228. 442. 10.5. It can be found only •• in the proceedings... | |
 | United States. Department of State. Bureau of Rolls and Library - Archives - 1905 - 628 pages
...it must be not in the opinions " planned or intentions of the Body which ["prepared" stricken out] & proposed the Constitution, but in the sense attached...people in their respective State Conventions where it rec? all the authority which it possesses. Such being the course of my reflections I have suffered... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Rolls and Library - Constitutional history - 1905 - 628 pages
...it must be not in the opinions " planned or intentions of the Body which ["prepared" stricken out] & proposed the Constitution, but in the sense attached...people in their respective State Conventions where it rec? all the authority which it possesses. Such being the course of my reflections I have suffered... | |
 | James Madison - Constitutional history - 1910 - 698 pages
...Instrument must be derived from the text itself; or if a key is to be sought elsewhere, it must be not in the opinions or intentions of the Body which planned...people in their respective State ' Conventions where it rec"? all the Authority which it possesses. Such being the course of my reflections I have suffered... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1911 - 700 pages
...the Constitution, but in the sense attached 1 Documentary History of the Constitution, V, 310-312. to it by the people in their respective State Conventions where it reed, all the authority which it possesses. Such being the course of my reflections I have suffered... | |
 | Charles Warren - Constitutional history - 1925 - 328 pages
...but only the framers who drew the instrument and offered it for consideration." 5th Cong., 3d Sess. the people in their respective State Conventions where...it received all the authority which it possesses"; and again: "as presumptive evidence of the general understanding, at the time, of the language used,... | |
 | Henry Campbell Black, Herbert Francis Wright - Constitutional law - 1927 - 844 pages
...is to be sought elsewhere, it must not be in the opinion or intentions of the body which planned and proposed the Constitution, but in the sense attached to it by the neople in their respective State Conventions where it received all the authority which it possesses.... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1927 - 286 pages
...is to be sought elsewhere, it must not be in the opinion or intentions of the body which planned and proposed the Constitution, but in the sense attached...it received all the authority which it possesses. And again writing to ML Hurlbert, May, 1830 (IX, 370) : But whatever respect may be thought due to... | |
 | Robert A. Goldwin - Law - 1987 - 168 pages
...to be sought elsewhere, it must not be in the opinions or intentions of the Body which planned and proposed the Constitution, but in the sense attached...State Conventions where it received all the authority it possesses.42 In Madison's view, the opinions of the framers at the Federal Convention should not... | |
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Government, the legitimate meaning of the Instrument must be derived from the text itself; or if a key is to be sought elsewhere, it must be, not in the opinions or intentions of the body which planned and proposed the Constitution, but in the sense attached... 
