 Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The Constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall...  Congressional Serial Set - Σελίδα 31913Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | George Van Santvoord - 1854 - 554 σελίδες
...imposed. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the Constitution controls any legis lative act repugnant to it, or, that the Legislature may...people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. " Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - 1854 - 550 σελίδες
...true, then a legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law : if the latter part be truey then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on...people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. " Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | John Fulton - 1864 - 582 σελίδες
...too plain to be contested, that the Constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it ; or, the legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary...people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. " Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | 1868 - 542 σελίδες
...are defined and limited, and that those limits may not be mistaken or forgotten the Constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to...people to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - 1868 - 532 σελίδες
...obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested that the Constitution controls any legislati ve act repugnant to it, or that the legislature may alter...people to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them' as forming the fundamental... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - 1868 - 532 σελίδες
...Constitution is not law; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts 01i the part of the people to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | 1872 - 522 σελίδες
...ground. The Constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is OD a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like...people to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. " Certainly all those who have framed written Constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1872 - 676 σελίδες
...unlimited powers is abolished, if these limits do uot confine the persons on whom they are imposed. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that...people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. " Certainly all those who have framed written Constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1873 - 744 σελίδες
...are defined and limited ; and that these limits may not be mistaken or forgotten, the Constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to...people to limit a power, in its own nature illimitable . " Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
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