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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melville-fuller/the-framers-of-the-constitution-employed-words-in-their-natural-sense/)

[Melville Fuller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melville-fuller/)

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## More by Melville Fuller

> [The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melville-fuller/the-emancipation-proclamation-is-predicated-upon-the-idea-that-the/)

[Melville Fuller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melville-fuller/)

> [I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melville-fuller/i-have-nine-children-and-one-of-them-is-an-invalid-her-mother-is/)

[Melville Fuller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melville-fuller/)

> [Nothing can be clearer than that what the Constitution intended to guard against was the exercise by the general government of the power of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melville-fuller/nothing-can-be-clearer-than-that-what-the-constitution-intended-to/)

[Melville Fuller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melville-fuller/)

> [Without continuity, men would become like flies in summer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melville-fuller/without-continuity-men-would-become-like-flies-in-summer/)

[Melville Fuller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melville-fuller/)

> [The power of the state to impose restraints and burdens upon persons and property in conservation and promotion of the public health, good order,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melville-fuller/the-power-of-the-state-to-impose-restraints-and-burdens-upon-persons/)

[Melville Fuller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melville-fuller/)

> [To hold that Congress has general police power would be to hold that it may accomplish objects not intrusted to the general government, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melville-fuller/to-hold-that-congress-has-general-police-power-would-be-to-hold-that/)

[Melville Fuller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melville-fuller/)

> [The framers of the constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to collateral aids to interpretation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melville-fuller/the-framers-of-the-constitution-employed-words-in-their-natural-sense/)

[Melville Fuller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melville-fuller/)

> [No convention on God's foot-stool can, or has a right to, run me and make anything but a Democrat out of me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melville-fuller/no-convention-on-god-s-foot-stool-can-or-has-a-right-to-run-me-and/)

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