 | John Curtis Samples - 2002 - 260 lapas
...may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions...as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the land, and consequently the theory of every such government must be that an act of the legislature repugnant... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources - 2002 - 190 lapas
...government left us with these ptophetic words: Certainly all those who have framed wtiaea consntutjont contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and comequavuV the theory of every such govemment must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to... | |
 | James L. Swanson - 2003 - 308 lapas
...constitution. Marshall's reasoning, however well-accepted, is not without its difficulties. He wrote: Certainly, all those who have framed written constitutions...legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. 4 This theory, which Marshall later described as "essentially attached to a written constitution,"... | |
 | United States. National Archives and Records Administration - 2006 - 257 lapas
...constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions...legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. . . . If an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void, does it, notwithstanding... | |
 | Yu-Lin Chiang - 2003 - 213 lapas
...Aufgaben 154 Chief Justice John Marshall geschrieben, und die einschlägigen Argumente lauten wie folgt: „Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions...legislature repugnant to the constitution is void. This theory is essentially attached to a written constitution, and is consequently to be considered... | |
 | Helen Fenwick, Gavin Phillipson - 2003 - 1143 lapas
...jurisdiction to do this. Nonetheless the Supreme Court assumed such a jurisdiction and in 1803 held that 'an Act of the Legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void' (Marbury v Madison) As a result, any court of general jurisdiction seems to have power to declare any... | |
 | David Eugene Wilkins - 2003 - 320 lapas
...justices of the court held that the Constitution is "the fundamental and paramount law of the nation" and that "an act of the legislature repugnant to the constitution is void." judicial review, the high court held the final word on the meaning of the Constitution. Later decisions... | |
 | Gregg Ivers, Kevin T. McGuire - 2004 - 372 lapas
...proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it ... Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions...Legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. It is possible to argue that the "balance of power" among the branches of government is a political,... | |
 | H. L. Pohlman - 2004 - 340 lapas
...constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power, in its own nature illimitable. Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions...legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. This theory is essentially attached to a written constitution, and is consequently to be considered,... | |
 | Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - 2004 - 502 lapas
...constitutions are absurd attempts on the part of the people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions...legislature repugnant to the constitution is void. This theory is essentially attached to a written constitution, and is consequently to be considered... | |
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Certainly all those who have framed written Constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be that an act of the Legislature repugnant to the Constitution... 
