 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...or forgotten, the constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose that limitation committed to writing, if these limits...other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall choose to alter it.(a) § 402. " In the United States, the principle in the English government, that... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to-be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative...other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall choose to alter it.(a) § 402. " In the United States, the principle in the English government, that... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 848 pages
...proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution conDissenting Opinion, per WANAMAKER, J. trols any legislative act repugnant to it ; or, that the...alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it." Cheerfully conceding that the majority have conscientiously arrived at a different conclusion, I have... | |
 | Law - 1920 - 516 pages
...limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained? The dis(«) »4 US 113. tinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers...alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it." Passing now from the original and earlier development of the doctrine of the police power in the federal... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - Bar associations - 1913 - 282 pages
...are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the Constitution combats any legislative act repugnant to it; or that the Legislature...when the legislature shall please to alter it. If an Act of the legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void, does it, notwithstanding its invalidity,... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - Electronic books - 1882 - 760 pages
...unlimited powers is abolished, if these limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that...like other acts, is alterable when the Legislature snail please to alter it. " If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary... | |
 | Law - 1903 - 658 pages
...persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed arc of equal obligation. ... . The Constitution is either a superior paramount law,...to alter it. If the former part of the alternative is true, then a legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law; if the latter part be true,... | |
 | Brinton Coxe - Constitutional law - 1893 - 446 pages
...alternatives there is no middle ground. "The constitution is either a superior, paramount law. un" changeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with or"dinary..." when the legislature shall please to alter it." This is a dilemma, at which the reasoning has arrived, by proceeding through a series of inferences... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1916 - 412 pages
...committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained ? " ' The Constitution is either a superior paramount law,...legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the_ alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law;' if the latter... | |
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It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution... 
