 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 trang
...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...Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. I say the same as to the opinion of those who consider the grant of the treaty making power as boundless.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 662 trang
...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...Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. I say the same as to the opinion of those who consider the grant of the treaty making power as boundless.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 594 trang
...the other dangerous, the one precise the other indefinite, I prefer that which is safe and precise. 1 had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation,...Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. I say the same as to the opinion of those who consider the grant of the treaty making power as boundless.... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - 1833 - 408 trang
...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...Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. I say the same as to the opinions of those who coneider the grant of the treaty making power as boundless.... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 608 trang
...dangerous, the one precise, the other indefinite, I prefer that which is safe and precise ;" and that he had " rather ask an enlargement of power from the...construction which would make our powers boundless." After urging strong arguments against the dangers of a broad construction of the constitution, he adds,... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 542 trang
...dangerous, the one precise, the other inde6nite, I prefer that which is safe and precise;" and that he had "rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it isfound necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless." After... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1838 - 144 trang
...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...Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. I say the same as to the opinion of those who consider the grant of the treaty-making power as boundless.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 620 trang
...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...Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. I say the same as to the opinion of those who consider the grant of the treaty making power as boundless.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 618 trang
...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...Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. I say the same as to the opinion of those who consider the grant of the treaty making power as boundless.... | |
 | Joel Parker - 1856 - 554 trang
...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...Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. I say the same as to the opinion of those who consider the grant of the treaty-making power as boundless.... | |
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I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless. Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it... 
