 | George Van Santvoord - 1854 - 554 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 permanent law of the nation, and, consequently, the theory of every such government must be, that... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - 1854 - 550 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...the Constitution is not law : if the latter part be truey then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power in... | |
 | John Fulton - 1864 - 582 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... | |
 | 1868 - 542 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... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - 1868 - 532 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...true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts 01i the part of the people to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. Certainly all those who... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - 1868 - 532 lapas
...absolutely void. Chief Justice Marshall, delivering the opinion of the court in Marbury vs. Madison, says : not law ; if the latter part be 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 written... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Alexander James Dallas, William Cranch, United States. Supreme Court, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard - 1870 - 708 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... | |
 | 1872 - 522 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 mur.t be that... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1872 - 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...Constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and permanent law of the nation ; and, consequently, the theory of every such Government must be, that... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1873 - 744 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... | |
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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... 
