On the record
But this was not the ordinary meaning of the word and it was by this usual and customary understanding of terms that the Constitution must be interpreted.
Source
gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “But this was not the ordinary meaning of the word and it was by this usual and customary understanding of terms that the…”
Editor's note · Context
Beveridge argues that the Constitution should be interpreted based on the common understanding of terms rather than a strict literal interpretation.
Share
More from Albert Beveridge
No! but snatched from time, To bloom afresh in yonder sphere sublime.
The Experiment, with its foundations laid on universal Suffrage and an unfettered and licentious Press is of too violent a nature for our excitable People.
The Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser said that "no man has lived or died in this country, save its father George Washington alone, who united such a warmth of affection for his person, with so deep and unaffected a respect for his…
What a gloom will spread over the nation when he is gone!
Other voices in this conversation
