 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1804 - 514 strani
...to the conftitution is not law : if the latter part be true, then written conllitutions are abfurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power, in its own nature illimitable. Certainly all thofe who have framed written conftltutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1812 - 486 strani
...to the constitution is not law : if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. Certainly ail those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1827 - 674 strani
...the Constitution, is not a law ; if the latter part be true, then written Constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power, in its na ture illimitable. " Certainly all those who have framed written Constitutions, contemplate them... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 strani
...to the constitution is not law ; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts on the part of the people to limit a power...forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, Jand consequently the theory of every such , government must be, that an act of the legislature repugnant... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - 1854 - 550 strani
...to the Constitution is not law : if the latter part be truey then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power...constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and permanent law of the nation, and, consequently, the theory of every such government must be, that an... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - 1868 - 532 strani
...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...the nation, and, consequently, the theory of every gneh government must be that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the Constitution, is void. This... | |
 | 1868 - 542 strani
...true, then written constitutions arc absurd attempts on the part or the people to limit a power in its nature illimitable. Certainly all those who have framed...constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental ami paramount law of the nation, aud, consequently, the theory of every such government must be, that... | |
 | 1872 - 522 strani
...to the Constitution is not law ; if the latter part be true, then written Constitutions are absurd attempts on the part of the people to limit a power...and consequently the theory of every such government mur.t be that an act of the legislature repngnant to the Constitution is void. " This theory is essentially... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1872 - 674 strani
...contrary to the Constitution is not law: if the latter part be true, then written Constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power...Constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and permanent law of the nation ; and, consequently, the theory of every such Government must be, that... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1921 - 706 strani
...act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. * * * "Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions...fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and, Opinion, per WANAMAKER, J. consequently, the theory of every such government must be, that an act of... | |
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If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act, contrary to the constitution, is not law: if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power, in its own nature,... 
