Such limitations would be inconsistent with the construction of the Clause as a whole, which, as we have noted, sets out three express limitations in separate sentences.
Such a construction of the clause gives effect to it, denies effect to no other words or provisions in the statute, and is in strict harmony with every part.
He added that NGN's construction of the clause was offensive to a fundamental principle of English criminal law - that a man was innocent until proven guilty.
Mr Laddie said that Mr Coulson's construction of the clause was supported by what might be presumed of both sides' intentions at the time that they entered into the agreement.
It would be extraordinary if these prominent supporters of the Citizenship Clause could have imagined, as the Court's construction of the clause now demands, that the clause was only "declaratory" of the law "where it now is," and yet that it would entirely withdraw a power twice recently exercised by Congress in their presence.
Far less compelling arguments have been made for a constitutional amendment in order to advance the political careers of Henry Kissinger and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who were both born outside the United States to non-American citizens and, by any possible construction of the clause, are ineligible for the Presidency.
Notwithstanding the violent attack upon it, I believe, sir, this is the fair construction of the clause.
To better understand the patterns of the logical and textual metafunctions in the construction of a coherent text, the interweaving of clause and cohesive chains at lexicogrammatical level in the above analysis can be summarised, to give a general view.
Never mind; her influence is beside the point for Thomas consistently has supported a narrow construction of the commerce clause and limitation on federal power, approvingly citing the decisions of the "Four Horsemen," as the rejectionist, conservative judges of the 1930s were called.
Historically, conservative, nationalistic judges have carved out a tradition of broad construction of the commerce clause.
