Gibbons v. Ogden · ¶25

If this be the admitted meaning of the word, in its application to foreign nations, it must carry the same meaning throughout the sentence, aiid remain a unit, unless there be some plain intelligible cause which alters it.

U. S. Reports, bound volume
U. S. Reports, volume 22, at 1 (Library of Congress) · transcription: Caselaw Access Project
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