...Albany Edition. •f: What (says Judge Patterson, 2. Dallas, 308.) is 2 constitution f It is the form t of government, delineated by the mighty hand of the...people in which certain first principles of fundamental laws are established. The constitution is certain • and fixed ; it contains the permanent will of...

...authority of the Pennsylvania legislature to pass the act under its constitution, which Paterson defined as "the form of government, delineated by the mighty...people, in which certain first principles of fundamental laws are established." Although the justice was talking specifically about the Pennsylvania constitution,...

...Court issued over 200 years ago, soon after the ratification of the Constitution that: [A Constitution] is the form of government, delineated by the mighty...people, in which certain first principles of fundamental laws are established. The Constitution is certain and fixed; it contains the permanent will of the...

...Patterson, a justice of the Supreme Court and strong Federalist, noted in 1795, American constitutions were "the form of government, delineated by the mighty hand of the people." The significance of a written constitution demonstrated that what Americans established were manifestations...

...Man, part 1, p. 42 ; or, in the language of Judge Patterson, truthful as eloquent, 2 Dall. 308, " It is the form of government delineated by the mighty...hand of the people, in which certain first principles or fundamental laws are established. The constitution is certain and fixed ; it contains the permanent...