 | 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
...constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any...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 lapas
...former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative Act, contrary to the Constitution, is not a law ; 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1851 - 642 lapas
...constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitatiou committed to writing, if these limits may at any time...of the people to limit a power, in its own nature 1llimitable. " Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1921 - 706 lapas
...the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the constitution is Opinion Per Curiam. not law ; if the latter part be true, then written...people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable." For these reasons the judgment of the court of appeals will be affirmed. Judgment affirmed. NICHOLS,... | |
 | Missouri Bar Association - 1913 - 244 lapas
...unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and like any other act, is alterable when the legislature shall please to...people to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. . . . If an act of a legislature, repugnant to the Constitution, is void, does it, notwithstanding... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - 1892 - 228 lapas
...former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the constitution is not a law ; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions...on the part of the people to limit a power in its nature illimita.ble." "Our American system of government," said the President of the American Bar Association... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - 1900 - 240 lapas
...uncontrollable interpretation of the legislative body "then," to quote Chief Justice Maishall, " these written constitutions are absurd attempts on the part of the people to limit a power in its nature illimitable." Another question at oncc arose under our national constitution much akin to the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1882 - 758 lapas
...confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited *aud acts allowed, are of [*177 equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to...the part of the people, to limit a power in its own natvire illimitable. Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as... | |
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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... 
