 | Harvard University. Department of Government - Constitutional law - 1917 - 166 pages
...unconstitutional. But that authority, Marshall argued, was derivable from the very nature of the Constitution. " The Constitution is either a superior paramount law,...ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary acts." To maintain the latter alternative would be to deny the supremacy which the Constitution in... | |
 | Rome Green Brown - 1917 - 890 pages
...the legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary act. Beti a supc THE JUDICIAL RECALL. 17 ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall pleaae to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary... | |
 | Jackson Harvey Ralston - Constitutional law - 1919 - 88 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...alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. ... Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | William Montgomery Meigs - Constitutional law - 1919 - 300 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...acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the leg1slature shall please to alter it. the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd... | |
 | Charles W. Wallis - United States - 1919 - 96 pages
...Constitution can become the law of the land, is a question deeply interesting to the United States. The Constitution is either a superior paramount law,...a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like any other acts, is alterable whenever the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former alternative... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - Judges - 1919 - 730 pages
...clear to admit of discussion, but he proceeded, nevertheless, to discuss the subject at great length. There is "no middle ground." The Constitution is either "a superior paramount law" not to be changed by legislative enactment, or else "it is on a level with the ordinary legislative... | |
 | Oberlin Historical and Improvement Organization, Ohio - Administrative law - 1920 - 664 pages
...aid is desired. As said by Chief Justice Marshall, in Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch, 137, at page 177: "The constitution is either a superior paramount law,...legislative act contrary to the constitution is not low ; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on part of the people,... | |
 | North American review - 1920 - 876 pages
...instrument that exists today. In these words he fixed the stability of that instrument for all time : The Constitution is either a superior paramount law,...like other acts, is alterable when the legislature is pleased to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary... | |
 | Everett Kimball - Political Science - 1920 - 656 pages
...Constitu- Constitution tion is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary 8Upreme or means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and like other on a level . " . with acts of acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. ...... | |
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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. 
