 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Law reports, digests, etc - 1804 - 514 pages
...exertion ; nor can it, nor ought it to be frequently repeated. The principles, therefore, fo eftablifhed, are deemed fundamental. And as the authority, from which they proceed, is fupreme, and can feldom aft, they are defigned to be permanent. This original and fupreme will organizes... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Court rules - 1812 - 486 pages
...has been erected. The exercise of this original right Madison is a very great exertion; nor can it, nor ought it, to be frequently repeated. The principles,...establish certain limits not to be transcended by those departments. The government of the United States is of the latter description. The powers of the legislature... | |
 | William Wirt - Funeral sermons - 1826 - 690 pages
...from this luminous exposition of constitutional law. 'This original and supreme will' (of the people) 'organizes the government, and assigns, to different...departments, their respective powers. It may either stop hero; or establish certain limits not to be transcended by those departments. 'The government of the... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...fabric has been erected. The exercise of this original right is a very great exertion 5 nor can it, nor ought it to be, frequently repeated. The principles,...authority from which they proceed is supreme, and <an seldom act, they are designed to be permanent." We pause to ask, if there is any thing dogmatic... | |
 | William Sullivan - New England - 1830 - 72 pages
...this luminous exposition of constitutional law. ' This original and supreme will' (of the people) ' organizes the government, and assigns, to different...establish certain limits not to be transcended by those departments. 'The government of the United States is of the latter description. The powers of the legislature... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...fabric has been erected. The exercise of this original right is a very great exertion ; nor can it, nor ought it to be frequently repeated. The principles,...And as the authority, from which they proceed, is supremo, and can seldom act, they are designed to be permanent This original and supreme will organises... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 686 pages
...it, niir ought U to be, frequently repeated. The principles, therefore, so established, are deeded fundamental. And as the authority from which they...can seldom act, they are designed to be permanent." We pause to ask, if there is any thing dogmatic in this?—any thing requiring extraordinary faith... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...has been erected. The exercise of this original V1 • right is a very great exertion ; nor can it, nor ought it, to be <• frequently repeated. The...establish certain limits not to be transcended by those departments. The government of the United States is of the latter description. The powers of the legislature... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...fabric has been erected. The exercise of this original right is a very great exertion ; nor can it, nor ought it, to be frequently repeated. The principles,...can seldom act, they are designed to be permanent." 2 It is certainly hoped Mr. Marshall, in the expressions " vested legal rights," and " the peculiar... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...fabric has been erected. The exercise of this original right is a very great exertion; nor can it, nor ought it to be frequently repeated. The principles,...from which they proceed is supreme, and can seldom (a) 1 Kent's Com. 450. (A) Case of Hay burn's, 2 Dallas's R. 410. act, they are designed to be permanent.... | |
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... That the people have an original right to establish for their future government, such principles as in their opinion shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis on which the whole American fabric has been erected. 
