 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - Labor policy - 1972 - 1418 pages
...the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. V Between these alternatives there ia no middle ground. The constitution is either a superior...alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. » * » * » * . » Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1972 - 1512 pages
...legislature »ay alter the constitution by an ordinary act. N Between these alternatives there is no Biddle ground. The constitution is either a superior paramount...alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. * * » » • • . • Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1974 - 422 pages
...it ; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary "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... | |
 | Virginia State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1913 - 448 pages
...certainty of a mathematical demonstration." The language of Chief Justice Marshall is clear and conclusive. "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... | |
 | Christian Lerat - Courts - 1989 - 340 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. lf the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act, contrary to the constitution,... | |
 | Francis Canavan - Political Science - 1995 - 192 pages
...to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional to be implicit in the nature of a written constitution: The constitution is either a superior paramount law,...to alter it. If the former part of the alternative is true, then a legislative act, contrary to the constitution is not law: if the latter part be true,... | |
 | Jean Edward Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 788 pages
...to it." Otherwise, the legislature may alter the Constitution at will. "Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The Constitution is either...alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it." Marshall said it was absolutely clear that all of those who had framed written constitutions — an... | |
 | William Bondy - Separation of powers - 1998 - 186 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... | |
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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. 
