 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...to make this clause restrictive, it would unquestionably have been so in form as well as in effect. The result of the most careful and attentive consideration...to exercise its best judgment in the selection of measnres to carry into execution the constitutional powers of the government. If no other motive for... | |
 | 1819 - 652 pages
...clause is that, if it doe» not enlarge, it cannot be construed to restra-n the powers of congress, orto impair the right of the legislature to exercise its...constitutional powers of the government. If no other motive for ifs insertion can be suggested, a sufficient one is found in the desire to remove all doubts respecting... | |
 | 1819 - 660 pages
...tlris clause restrictive, it would unquestionably hove been so-in form as well as in effect. . ,• The result of the most careful and attentive consideration bestowed upon this clause is that, if it docs not enlarge, it cannot be construed to ro.str.iin the powers of congress, or to impair the right... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...not of an express restriction. ^ 615. Upon the whole, the result of the most careful examination of this clause is, that, if it does not enlarge, it cannot...carry into execution the constitutional powers of the national government. The motive for its insertion doubtless was, the desire to remove all possible... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...form, as well as in effect. " The result of the most careful and attentive consideration bestowed on this clause is, that if it does not enlarge, it cannot...constitutional powers of the government. If no other motive can be suggested, a sufficient one is found in the desire to remove all doubts respecting the right... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 498 pages
...he tells us in so many words, that " upon the whole, the result of the most careful examination of this clause is, that if it does not enlarge, it cannot...be construed to restrain the powers of congress, or impair the right of the legislature to exercise its best judgment in the selection of measures to carry... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1845 - 706 pages
...its powers into execution, would be not much less idle than to hold a lighted taper to the sun. . . . The result of the most careful and attentive consideration...its best judgment in the selection of measures, to 30 carr}' into execution the constitutional powers of the government. If no other motive for its insertion... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1854 - 862 pages
...Laws which may be necessary and proper, for carrying into execution the enumerated powers, to be this: "The result of the most careful and attentive consideration...execution the Constitutional powers of the Government". This means that among measures for executing " the Constitutional powers of Government", Congress may,... | |
 | Abel Parker Upshur - Constitutional history - 1863 - 188 pages
...Indeed, he tells us in so many words, that "upon the whole, the result of the most careful examination of this clause is, that if it does not enlarge, it cannot...be construed to restrain the powers of congress, or impair the right of the legislature to exercise its best judgment in the selection of measures to carry... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 672 pages
...knew that it would be endangered by its strength, not its weakness. . . Metropolitan Bank v. Van Dyck. The result of the most careful and attentive consideration...the legislature to exercise its best judgment, in Hie selection of measures to carry into execution Hie constitutional powers of the government. If no... | |
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The result of the most careful and attentive consideration bestowed upon this clause is, that if it does not enlarge, it cannot be construed to restrain the powers of Congress, or to impair the right of the legislature to exercise its best judgment in... 
