 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1804 - 514 lapas
...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 lapas
...legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then...limit a power in its own nature illimitable. Certainly ail those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount... | |
 | William Wirt - 1826 - 690 lapas
...legislative acts, and like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. ' If the former part of the alternative be true, then...constitutions, contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1827 - 674 lapas
...legislative Acts, and, like other Acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. " If the former part of the alternative be true, then...legislative Act, contrary to the Constitution, is not a law ; if the latter part be true, then written Constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of... | |
 | William Sullivan - 1830 - 72 lapas
...legislative acts, and like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. ' If the former part of the alternative be true, then...constitutions, contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 lapas
...legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable, when the legislature shall please to alter it If the former part of the alternative be true, then...latter part be true, then written constitutions are obsurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power, in its own nature illimitable. " Certainly... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1827 - 686 lapas
...part of the alternative be true, then a legislative Act, contrary to the Constitution, is not a la\u; if the latter part be true, then written Constitutions...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 lapas
...legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then...constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, Jand consequently the theory of every such , government must be, that... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 lapas
...legistive acts, and like other acts, it is alterable, when the legislature shall please to alter it. " If the former part of the alternative be true, then...constitutions, contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be that... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1851 - 642 lapas
...legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable, when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then...of the people to limit a power, in its own nature 1llimitable. " Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming... | |
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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 please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative... 
