 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Court rules - 1812 - 486 pages
...duty. If, then, the courts are to regard the constitution, and the constitution is superior to any ordinary act of the legislature, the constitution,...law, are reduced to the necessity of maintaining that courts must close their eyes on the constitution, and sec only the law. This doctrine would subvert... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...duty. If, then, the courts are to regard the Constitution ; and the Constitution is superior to any ordinary Act of the legislature; the Constitution,...Act, must govern the case to which they both apply." The Chief Justice proceeds — " Those, then, who controvert the principle, that the Constitution is... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...duty. If, then, the courts are to regard the constitution ; and the constitution is superior to any ordinary act of the legislature ; the constitution,...principle, that the constitution is to be considered, in courts, as a paramount law, are reduced to the necesBity of maintaining, that courts must close their... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...dutyT^ If, then, the courts are to regard the constitution, and the constitution is superior to any ordinary act of the legislature, the constitution,...both apply. Those, then, who controvert the principle thai the constitution ICr. 177. is to be considered in court as a paramount law, are reduced to the... | |
 | United States - Law - 1850 - 906 pages
...1 Cond. Rep. 256. If courts are to regard the constitution, and the constitution is superior to any ordinary act of the legislature ; the constitution,...act, must govern the case to which they both apply. Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch, 137 ; 1 Cond. Rep. 267. In the construction of a statute, positive and... | |
 | United States - Law - 1848 - 880 pages
...1 Cond. Rep. 256. If courts are to regard the constitution, and the constitution is superior to any ordinary act of the legislature; the constitution,...ordinary act, must govern the case to which they both npplv. Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch, 137 ; 1 Cond. Rep. 267. In the construction of a statute, positive... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1851 - 642 pages
...duty. If, then, the courts are to regard the constitution, and the constitution is superior to any ordinary act of the legislature, the constitution, and not such ordinary act, must govern the cose to which they both apply. garded, and the acts of the legislature and executive enjoy a secure... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 830 pages
...duty. If, then, the courts are to regard the Constitution, and the Constitution is superior to any ordinary act of the legislature, the Constitution,...act, must govern the case to which they both apply." The Constitution, section 1 of the schedule, declares that: "The common law and the statute laws now... | |
 | R. Peters - 1856 - 896 pages
...courts are to regard the constitution, and the constitution is superior to any ordinary act of tie legislature; the constitution, and not such ordinary act, must govern the case to which they both applt. Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch, 137 ; 1 Cond. Rep. 267. In the construction of a statute, positive... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1858 - 572 pages
...duty. If, then, the courts are to regard the Constitution, and the Constitution is superior to any ordinary act of the Legislature, the Constitution,...act, must govern the case to which they both apply.' As in the case of Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court declared void an act of Congress which they... | |
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If then the courts are to regard the Constitution, and the Constitution is superior to any ordinary act of the legislature, the Constitution and not such ordinary act must govern the case to which they both apply. 
