 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Court rules - 1812 - 486 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...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...legislature, repugnant to the Constitution, is void. " This theory is essentially attached to written Constitutions, and is consequently to be considered,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 532 pages
...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 - American fiction - 1827 - 538 pages
...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,... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1832 - 590 pages
...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,... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...to the constitution is not law ; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are obsurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power,...legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. This theory is essentially attached to a written constitution, and is consequently to be considered... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...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 Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legistive acts, and like other acts, it is alterable, when the legislature shall please to...legislature repugnant to the constitution is void. " This theory is essentially attached to a written constitution, and is consequently to be considered... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1851 - 642 pages
...constitutions are absurd attempts on the part of the people to limit a power, in its own nature 1llimitable. " 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... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1851 - 706 pages
...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... | |
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Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. 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... 
