The framers of the constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to collateral aids to interpretation is unnecessary, and cannot be indulged in to narrow or enlarge the text; but where there… — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic… — Melville Fuller Copy Share
I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when… — Melville Fuller Copy Share
Nothing can be clearer than that what the Constitution intended to guard against was the exercise by the general government of the power of… — Melville Fuller Copy Share
The power of the state to impose restraints and burdens upon persons and property in conservation and promotion of the public health, good order,… — Melville Fuller Copy Share
To hold that Congress has general police power would be to hold that it may accomplish objects not intrusted to the general government, and… — Melville Fuller Copy Share
The framers of the constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to collateral aids to interpretation… — Melville Fuller Copy Share
No convention on God's foot-stool can, or has a right to, run me and make anything but a Democrat out of me. — Melville Fuller Copy Share
