...appointing power, and to plant them as a safeguard against executive influence. It were idle to say that it was the intention of the framers of the constitution to confine the Senate to a consideration of some particular matters personal to the nominee. If it were...

...appointing power, and to plant them as a safeguard against executive influence. It were idle to say that it was the intention of the framers of the constitution to confine the Senate to a consideration of some particular matters personal to the nominee. If it were...

...result from local and separate acts of the States, there is evidence — I think abundant evidence — that it was the intention of the framers of the constitution to give to Congress a controlling power over the whole subject, to the end that there should be, for the...

...have all been carefully and critically examined by the court, and from them it appears satisfactorily, that it was the intention of the framers of the Constitution to limit and restrict the Supreme Court in the exercise of original jurisdiction to such cases as the...

...result from local and separate acts of the States, there is evidence — I think abundant evidence — that it was the intention of the framers of the constitution to give to Congress a controlling power over the whole subject, to the end that there should be, for the...

...implication, the Governor being invested with such power. And yet we presume no one would seriously deny, that it was the intention of the framers of the constitution to refuse the power of pardoning offences before conviction. In the thirteenth section, the Governor is...

...State Legislatures, under provisions similar to that in our Constitution.— (17 Ib. 219.) It may be that it was the intention of the framers of the Constitution to exclude Postmasters from a seat in the Legislature ; but the question is — Have they done so? —...

...could result from local and separate acts of the States, there is evidence, I think abundant evidence, that it was the intention of the framers of the Constitution to give to Congress a controlling power over the whole subject, to the end that there should be, for the...

...it is to be found. ***** If the word "territory" here includes the right of jurisdiction, it follows that it was the intention of the framers of the Constitution to confer upon Congress the power to sell this jurisdiction over all the western cessions, and that this...

...it is to be found. ***** If the word "territory" here includes the right of jurisdiction, it follows that it was the intention of the framers of the Constitution to confer upon Congress the power to sell this jurisdiction over all the western cessions, and that this...