 | Russell L. Caplan - 1988 - 265 lapas
...and force." In his famous Marbury v. Madison opinion, Chief Justice John Marshall rhetorically asked: "To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose...time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?" 60 Sensibly, Tribe argues that the courts would not be bound to treat an amendment as part of the Constitution... | |
 | Sanford Levinson, Steven Mailloux - 1988 - 524 lapas
...of the constitutional text to undergird his claim for the primacy of judicial review. "The powers of the legislature are defined, and limited; and that...not be mistaken, or forgotten, the constitution is written."5 No sense can be made of even present-day American political discourse without recognizing... | |
 | Michael Warner - 2009 - 228 lapas
...order to argue that hermeneutics gives the law exactly in the act of receiving the law. The powers of the legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be forgotten, the constitution is written . . . Certainly, all those who have framed written constitutions... | |
 | Robert A. Licht - 1993 - 224 lapas
...departments their respective powers." In the American case, it also assigns limits to those powers, and "that those limits may not be mistaken or forgotten, the constitution is written." It was for this reason that he (and, he suggested, all Americans) deemed a written constitution to... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations - 1994 - 446 lapas
...the government. 'The powers of the legislature are defined and limited," said Marshall for the court; "and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten,...writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed by by those intended to be restrained? * * * It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the Constitution... | |
 | Alessandro Pizzorusso - 1994 - 262 lapas
...be discarded by way of judicial review: "the powers of the legislature are defined and limited, and those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the constitution is written" 14 . The underlying idea, which is at the centre of the theory of the judicial review, is 12 US v.... | |
 | Anders Breidlid - 1996 - 432 lapas
...those departments. The government of the United States is of the latter description. The powers of the legislature are defined and limited; and that...committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be law of the nation, and, consequently, the theory of every such government must be that an act of the... | |
 | Robert H. Bork - 2009 - 452 lapas
...unconstitutional directly upon the fact that the United States has a written Constitution. "The powers of the legislature are defined and limited; and that...may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"9 He said that the theory of every government with a written Constitution "must be, that... | |
 | William Bondy - 1998 - 186 lapas
...limits not to be ^transcended by those departments. . . . "The powers of the legislature are denned and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken...written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what 1 Cooper -vs. Telfair, 4 Ball. 19. 2 I Cranch, 137. It may be interesting to observe that Marshall... | |
 | Jean Edward Smith - 1998 - 788 lapas
...and assigns, to different departments, their respective powers." The powers of Congress were limited. "To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose...committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be [exceeded] by those intended to be restrained?" Like a stern schoolmaster lecturing errant pupils,... | |
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The powers of the legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits... 
