| United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1812 - 486 lapas
...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...legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. court, as one of the fundamental principles of our socicty. It is not therefore to be lost sight of... | |
| William Wirt - 1826 - 690 lapas
...abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohihited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a...legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. 'It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1827 - 674 lapas
...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...is void. " This theory is essentially attached to written Constitutions, and is consequently to be considered, by this court, as one of \\\e fundamental... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 538 lapas
...every government, with a written constitution, forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, must be, that an act of the legislature repugnant to the constitution is void. If void, it cannot bind the courts, and oblige them to give it effect ; for this would be to overthrow,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 532 lapas
...every government, with a written constitution, forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, must be, that an act of the legislature repugnant to the constitution is void. If void, it cannot bind the courts, and oblige them to give it effect ; for this would be to overthrow,... | |
| William Sullivan - 1830 - 72 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...legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. 'It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those... | |
| James Kent - 1832 - 590 lapas
...every government, with a written constitution, forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, must be, that an act of the legislature repugnant to the constitution is void. If void, it cannot bind the courts, and oblige them to give it eflect ; for this would be to overthrow,... | |
| John Marshall - 1839 - 762 lapas
...written constitutions contemplate them as 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 to A the constitution is void.3 This theory is essentially attached to a written constitution, and is... | |
| James Kent - 1851 - 706 lapas
...every government, with a written constitution, forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, must be, that an act of the legislature repugnant to the constitution is void. If void, it cannot bind the courts, and oblige them to give it effect ; for this would 1)0 to overthrow... | |
| Andrew Johnson - 1868 - 532 lapas
...true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts on the part or the people to limit a power in its nature illimitable. Certainly all those who have framed...legislature, repugnant to the Constitution is void. Thus the particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the... | |
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