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1668. CONSTITUTION (The Federal), Construction of.—[further continued].
When an instrument admits
two constructions, the one safe the other
dangerous; the one precise, the other indefinite,
I prefer that which is safe and precise.
I had rather ask an enlargement of power
from the nation, where it is found necessary,
than to assume it by a construction which
would make our powers boundless.—
To Wilson C. Nicholas. Washington ed. iv, 506.
Ford ed., viii, 247.
(M.
1803)
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