 | Gary L. McDowell, L. Sharon Noble, Sharon L. Noble - 1997 - 350 trang
...amendment to the Constitution, explaining, "I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation . . . than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless."71 However, an amendment would be time-consuming, and Congress pressed for action before... | |
 | Stephen M. Griffin - 1998 - 228 trang
...the power through an interpretation of the Constitution. "Our peculiar security," Jefferson argued, "is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction . . ." Nevertheless, Jefferson was eventually persuaded otherwise — after all, the opportunity to... | |
 | Larry Alexander - 2001 - 336 trang
...forgotten, the constitution is written."78 In the same year Jefferson wrote that "[o]ur peculiar security is possession of a written constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction."79 Considering this history, it is ironic that some modern commentators have seized on... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 676 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.... | |
 | José López Baralt - 1999 - 400 trang
...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...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... | |
 | Peter McNamara - 1999 - 278 trang
...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...our powers boundless. Our peculiar security is in possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. Conceding the... | |
 | Kimberly C. Shankman - 1999 - 152 trang
...construction of the constitutional powers of government, but rather an alternative to such a construction: "I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the...construction which would make our powers boundless." From Jefferson's point of view, it was better for the executive to explicitly exercise an extra-constitutional... | |
 | Elliot E. Slotnick - 1999 - 666 trang
...for the rule of law, upon which liberty and justice ultimately depend. As Thomas Jefferson observed, "Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written...constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction."6 Chief Justice John Marshall, in Marbury и Madison, the very case establishing the... | |
 | Phillip G. Henderson - 2000 - 324 trang
...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...our powers boundless. Our peculiar security is in possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. Conceding the... | |
 | Garrett Ward Sheldon - 2003 - 324 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...construction which would make our powers boundless" (97). When delays in Congressional ratification of the purchase raised threats that France and or Spain... | |
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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... 
