 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Court rules - 1812 - 486 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Wirt - Funeral sermons - 1826 - 690 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...to be contested, that the Constitution controls any legislative Act repugnant to it ; or, that the legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary...superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative Acts, and, like other Acts, is alterable when... | |
 | William Sullivan - New England - 1830 - 72 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it ; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary...either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by irresistible triumph.1 To the people at large, therefore, such an institution, is peculiarly valuable... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 686 pages
...powers. It may either stop here, or establish certain limits not to be transcended by those departments. "Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative Acts, and, like other Acts, is alterable when... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...legislative act repugnant to it ; or that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. 3 .Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means ; or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...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...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... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...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...a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legistive acts, and like other acts, it is alterable, when... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1851 - 642 pages
...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...superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable, when... | |
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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... 
