 | 1926 - 1034 σελίδες
...and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the Constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation...prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the Constitution controls any legislative act repugnant... | |
 | Sanford Levinson, Steven Mailloux - 1988 - 524 σελίδες
...Cranch) 137, 178 (1803). 5. Idem at 175-76 (emphasis added). Marshall goes on to say, "To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation...time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?" (idem). Marshall, however, undercut (dare one say "deconstructed"?) his argument in Marbury when he... | |
 | Russell L. Caplan - 1988 - 265 σελίδες
...famous Marbury v. Madison opinion, Chief Justice John Marshall rhetorically asked: "To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation...time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?" 60 Sensibly, Tribe argues that the courts would not be bound to treat an amendment as part of the Constitution... | |
 | Nicholas Mercuro - 1992 - 240 σελίδες
...judicial review was unattainable: The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited power is abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons...prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. The supremacy clause itself, which provides that the "Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which... | |
 | E. Lauterpacht, C. J. Greenwood - 1994 - 728 σελίδες
...what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if thes2 limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended...do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed * * *." Id. at 176. The political question doctrine is a recognition that certain questions have been... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations - 1994 - 446 σελίδες
..."and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation...writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed by by those intended to be restrained? * * * It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the Constitution... | |
 | Anders Breidlid - 1996 - 428 σελίδες
...and that those limits may not be mistaken or forgotten, the Constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation...committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be law of the nation, and, consequently, the theory of every such government must be that an act of the... | |
 | Robert H. Bork - 2009 - 452 σελίδες
...and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation...may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"9 He said that the theory of every government with a written Constitution "must be, that... | |
 | Jean Edward Smith - 1998 - 788 σελίδες
...different departments, their respective powers." The powers of Congress were limited. "To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation...committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be [exceeded] by those intended to be restrained?" Like a stern schoolmaster lecturing errant pupils,... | |
 | William Bondy - 1998 - 186 σελίδες
...Bayard vs. Singleton. (See ante, p. 55.1 purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if those limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained ?• "The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level... | |
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To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained ? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished... 
