 | Electronic journals - 1890 - 868 pages
...committed to writing, if those limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained ? . . . The constitution is either a superior, paramount law,...on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and like any other acts is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1897 - 792 pages
...law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and like any other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall...legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not l¡nv. If the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts on the part of the... | |
 | Brinton Coxe - Constitutional law - 1893 - 446 pages
...alternatives there is no middle ground. "The constitution is either a superior, paramount law. un" changeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with or"dinary..." when the legislature shall please to alter it." This is a dilemma, at which the reasoning has arrived, by proceeding through a series of inferences... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1893 - 776 pages
...committed to writing, if those limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained ? The Constitution is either a superior paramount law,...on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and like any other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1916 - 412 pages
...committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained ? " ' The Constitution is either a superior paramount law,...legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the_ alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law;' if the latter... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1895 - 856 pages
...LEGISLATION. 8o/ The language of Chief Justice MARSHALL is clear and conclusive. " The Constitution is cither a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary...a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like any other act, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1913 - 318 pages
...It is always refreshing to again and again look into the pellucid waters of his irresistible logic : "The Constitution is either a superior, paramount...a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like any other act, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1898 - 884 pages
...committed to writing, if those limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained? .... The constitution is either a superior, paramount law,...on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and like any other act is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the... | |
 | Michel Mathieu - Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 600 pages
...or that t/te Legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary act. " Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The Constitution is either...a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary mean*, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other aets, is alterable when... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 1152 pages
...quote from It at some length. It is there said (Judge Marshall delivering the opinion of the court): "The constitution is either a superior paramount law,...If the former part of the alternative be true, then the legislative act contrary to the constitution is not law. If the latter part be true, then written... | |
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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 please to alter it. 
