| Frank Hendrick - Antitrust law - 1906 - 604 pages
...tint the legislature may not alter the Constitution by an orvlinary act. "'Between the alternatives there is no middle ground. The Constitution is either...other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall be pleased to alter it. "'If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary... | |
| Samuel Furman Hunt - History - 1908 - 530 pages
...in the celebrated case of Marbury v. Madison, declares: "The constitution is either a superior and paramount law unchangeable by ordinary means, or it...shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternatives be true, then a legislative act contrary to the constitution is not a law ; if the latter... | |
| Samuel Furman Hunt - History - 1908 - 528 pages
...in the celebrated case of Marbury v. Madison, declares: "The constitution is either a superior and paramount law unchangeable by ordinary means, or it...shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternatives be trne, then a legislative act contrary to the constitution is not a law ; if the latter... | |
| Westel Woodbury Willoughby, John Archibald Fairlie, Frederic Austin Ogg - Political science - 1908 - 718 pages
...legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary act." " The Constitution is either a superior paramount law,...with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it." " Certainly all those who have framed written... | |
| Albert Hutchinson Putney - Law - 1908 - 608 pages
...cither a superior paramount law nn. chungeable by ordinarv menus, or it is on a level with ordinarv legislative acts: and. like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to niter it. "If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the constitution... | |
| Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent - American literature - 1909 - 504 pages
...or, that the Legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The Constitution is either...is alterable when the Legislature shall please to order it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the Constitution... | |
| Charles Grove Haines - Courts - 1909 - 194 pages
...legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is JK>^ middle ground. The Constitution is either a superior...ordinary means, or it is on a level with ; ordinary acts alterable when the legislature shall please to alter .' it. If the former part of the alternative... | |
| Charles Austin Beard - United States - 1914 - 694 pages
...no middle ground. The Th« Constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by b either ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative Acts, paramount, and, like other Acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please ° to alter it. If... | |
| Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Constitutional law - 1910 - 1170 pages
...ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The Constitution is either a supreme paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or...alterable when the legislature shall- please to alter it. ... Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
| Simeon Davidson Fess - Political parties - 1910 - 466 pages
...limited, and that those limits might not be mistaken, or forgotten, the Constitution is written. . . . The Constitution is either a superior paramount law,...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... | |
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