 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Court rules - 1812 - 486 pages
...or forgotten, the constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these...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... | |
 | William Wirt - Funeral sermons - 1826 - 690 pages
...constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limit7 60 ntion committed to writing, if these limits may, at any...the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohihited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested,... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...or forgotten, the Constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited? and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these...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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 532 pages
...written constitution. But to what purpose is that limitation, if those limits may at any time be passed ? The distinction between a government with limited...if acts prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. If the constitution does not control any legislative act repugnant to it, then the legislature... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 538 pages
...written constitution. But to what purpose is that limitation, if those limits may at anytime be passed ? The distinction between a government with limited...if acts prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. If the constitution does not control any legislative act repugnant to it, then the legislature... | |
 | William Sullivan - New England - 1830 - 72 pages
...or forgotten, the constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these...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... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1832 - 590 pages
...constitution. But to what purpose is that limitation, if those limits may at any time be passed .? The distinction between a government with limited...if acts prohibited, and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. If the constitution does not conlrol any legislative act repugnant to it, then the legislature... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...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 may, at any time, be passed 1iy those intended to be restrained ? The distinction, between a government with limited and unlimited... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 686 pages
...or forgotten, the Constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited.' and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these...whom they are imposed, and if Acts prohibited, and Jlcfs allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the Constitution... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...or forgotten, the constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these...distinction between a government with limited and ur 'imited powers is abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed,... | |
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To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained ? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished... 
