Melville Fuller
Melville Fuller
Melville Weston Fullerwas the eighth Chief Justice of the United States between 1888 and 1910...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSupreme Court Justice
Date of Birth11 February 1833
CityAugusta, ME
CountryUnited States of America
Melville Fuller quotes about
convention god
No convention on God's foot-stool can, or has a right to, run me and make anything but a Democrat out of me.
government people police
To hold that Congress has general police power would be to hold that it may accomplish objects not intrusted to the general government, and to defeat the operation of the 10th Amendment, declaring that 'the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
government order constitution-of-the-united-states
The power of the state to impose restraints and burdens upon persons and property in conservation and promotion of the public health, good order, and prosperity is a power originally and always belonging to the states, not surrendered to them by the general government, nor directly restrained by the constitution of the United States, and essentially exclusive.
summer men continuity
Without continuity, men would become like flies in summer.
views law two
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 is ambiguity or doubt, or where two views may well be entertained, contemporaneous and subsequent practical construction is entitled to the greatest weight.