 | Josiah Quincy - 1856 - 32 trang
...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 - 92 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.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - 1857 - 260 trang
...the surface upon the acquisition of Louisiana were presented to the mind of Jefferson, he wrote : " I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the...possession of a written Constitution. Let us (not make it blank paper by construction. I say the same as to the opinion of those who consider the grant of the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - 1857 - 254 trang
...to the surface upon the acquisition of Louisiana were presented to the mind of Jefferson, he wrote : "I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the...possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it blank paper by construction. I say the same as to the opinion of those who consider the grant of the... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - 1857 - 672 trang
...the surface upon the acquisition of Louisiana were presented to the mind of Jefferson, ho wrote : " e state will be of direct Celtic descendency. blank paper by construction. I sny the same as to tne opinion of those who consider the grant of the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1857 - 688 trang
...to the surface upon the acquisition of Louisiana were presented to the mind of Jefferson, he wrote : "I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the...than to assume it by a construction which would make pur powers boundless. Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 764 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 treatymaking power as boundless.... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 916 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 treatymaking power as boundless.... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 760 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...to assume it by a construction which would make our power? boundless. Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1859 - 642 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... 
