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... Concerning Justice - 115. lappuseautors: Lucilius Alonzo Emery - 1914 - 170 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
| United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1804 - 514 lapas
...aft. s V Between thefe alternatives there is no middle ground. The conftitution is either a fuperior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legiflative afts, and like other afts, is alterable when the legiilature fhall pleafe to alter it.... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1812 - 486 lapas
...plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary...alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the constitution... | |
| William Wirt - 1826 - 690 lapas
...plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary...alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. ' If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the constitution... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1827 - 674 lapas
...to be contested, that the Constitution controls any legislative Act repugnant to it ; or, that the legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary...alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. " If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative Act, contrary to the Constitution,... | |
| William Sullivan - 1830 - 72 lapas
...plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary...alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. ' If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the constitution... | |
| Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 lapas
...to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it ; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary...either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by irresistible triumph.1 To the people at large, therefore, such an institution, is peculiarly valuable... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1827 - 686 lapas
...powers. It may either stop here, or establish certain limits not to be transcended by those departments. "Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. " If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative Act, contrary to the Constitution,... | |
| John Marshall - 1839 - 762 lapas
...legislative act repugnant to it ; or that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. 3 .Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the constitution... | |
| E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1040 lapas
...plain to-be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary...other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall choose to alter it.(a) § 402. " In the United States, the principle in the English government, that... | |
| James Wynne - 1850 - 372 lapas
...plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it, or that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary...ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legistive acts, and like other acts, it is alterable, when the legislature shall please to alter it.... | |
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