 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 662 pagini
...authorise both to claim all powers, general and particular, and break up the foundations of the Union. Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding, and...sought for in metaphysical subtleties, which may make any thing mean every thing or nothing, at pleasure. It should be left to the sophisms of advocates,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pagini
...authorise both to claim all powers, general and particular, and break up the foundations of the Union. Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding, and...sought for in metaphysical subtleties, which may make any thing mean every thing or nothing, at pleasure. It should be left to the sophisms of advocates,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 550 pagini
...authorise both to claim all powers, general and particular, and break up the foundations of the Union. Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding, and...Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subleties, which may make any titing mean every thing or nothing, at pleasure. It should be left to... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 676 pagini
...authorize both to claim all power, general and particular, and break up the foundations of the Union. Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding, and...anything mean everything or nothing, at pleasure. It should be left to the sophisms of advocates, whose trade it is, to prove that a defendant is a plaintiff,... | |
 | Philip Lindsley - 1859 - 600 pagini
...will lose in purse, and be much the worse foF their gains. " Laws (says Mr. Jefferson) ought to be made for men of ordinary understanding, and should...the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning ought not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties, which may make anything mean everything or nothing... | |
 | Philip Lindsley - 1859 - 602 pagini
...will lose in purse, and be much the worse for their gains. " Laws (says Mr. Jefferson) ought to be made for men of ordinary understanding, and should...the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning ought not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties, which may make anything mean everything or nothing... | |
 | Philip Lindsley - 1866 - 664 pagini
...will lose in purse, and be much the worse for their gains. " Laws (says Mr. Jefferson) ought to be made for men of ordinary understanding, and should...the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning ought not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties, which may make anything mean everything or nothing... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1899 - 516 pagini
...authorize both to claim all power, general and particular, and break up the foundations of the Union. Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding, and...anything mean everything or nothing, at pleasure. It should be left to the sophisms of advocates, whose trade it is, to prove that a defendant is a who... | |
 | 1900 - 746 pagini
...authorize both to claim all powers, general and particular, and break up the foundations of the Union, laws are made for men of ordinary understanding, and...sought for in metaphysical subtleties, which may make any thing mean every thing or nothing, at pleasure, it should be left to the sophisms of advocates,... | |
 | 1900 - 784 pagini
...authorize both to claim all powers, general and particular, and break up the foundations of the Union, laws are made for men of ordinary understanding, and...sought for in metaphysical subtleties, which may make any thing mean every thing or nothing, at pleasure, it should be left to the sophisms of advocates,... | |
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Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding, and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties, which may make anything mean everything or nothing, at pleasure. 
