 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 538 lapas
...written constitution. But to what purpose is that limitation, if those limits may at anytime be passed ? The distinction between a government with limited...prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. If the constitution does not control any legislative act repugnant to it, then the legislature may... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 532 lapas
...written constitution. But to what purpose is that limitation, if those limits may at any time be passed ? The distinction between a government with limited...prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. If the constitution does not control any legislative act repugnant to it, then the legislature may... | |
 | James Kent - 1832 - 590 lapas
...constitution. But to what purpose is that limitation, if those limits may at any time be passed .? The distinction between a government with limited...prohibited, and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. If the constitution does not conlrol any legislative act repugnant to it, then the legislature may... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1827 - 686 lapas
...United States is of the latter description. The powers of the legislature are defined and limited j and that those limits may not be mistaken or forgotten,...whom they are imposed, and if Acts prohibited, and Jlcfs allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the Constitution... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 lapas
...those intended to be restrained ? The distinction between a government with limited and ur 'imited powers is abolished, if those limits do not confine...prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. \tt is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1040 lapas
...or forgotten, the constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose that limitation committed to writing, if these limits...of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to-be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature... | |
 | James Kent - 1851 - 706 lapas
...written constitution. But to what purpose is that limitation, if those limits may at any time be passed ? The distinction between a government with limited...prohibited, and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. If the constitution does not control any legislative act repugnant to it, then the legislature may... | |
 | James Kent - 1860 - 748 lapas
...written constitution. But to what purpose is that limitation, if those limits may at any time be passed ? The distinction between a government with limited...if acts prohibited, and acts allowed, are of equal (a) 2 Bny, 38. (6) 1 Harr. & Johns. Maryland Rep. 236. obligation. If the constitution does not control... | |
 | 1872 - 522 lapas
...committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be re^ strained ? The distinction between a government with limited...whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and Dawsou's ed., vol. 1, pp. 541, 542. acts acts allowed are of equal prohibition. It is a proposition... | |
 | India. High Court (Kolkata, India) - 1878 - 644 lapas
...distinction between a Government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished if those limits do nut confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and...prohibited and Acts allowed are of equal obligation. * * * * * The theory of every Government with a written constitution forming the fundamental and paramount... | |
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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... 
