 | Charles Austin Beard - Constitutional history - 1999 - 174 pages
...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. attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. Certainly all... | |
 | Andr s Saj¢ - Political Science - 1999 - 312 pages
...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. " Representative William Plumer, congressman from New Hampshire, in Smith, 319. Soon after, Jefferson... | |
 | Robert M. Hayden - History - 2000 - 234 pages
...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 10 alter it. ... if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts ... to... | |
 | Richard M Battistoni - Law - 2000 - 198 pages
...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...people to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. Certainly all those who have framed written Constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | Robert J. Spitzer - Political Science - 2000 - 300 pages
...cannot be allowed to define away those limits, and a written constitution becomes an "absurd attempt, on the part of the people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable." 54 Yet, in McCulloch, he was, in effect, stating that, with regard to the only limitation on congressional... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall - Law - 2000 - 506 pages
...their functions." Title 3, Ch. 5, Art. 3. See generally H. MORRISON, THE FRENCH CONSTITUTION 18 (1930). like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it." Remember, the question he has posed is "whether an Act repugnant to the Constitution can become the... | |
 | Sotirios A. Barber, Robert P. George - Law - 2001 - 354 pages
...in a written constitution are — to quote Chief Justice John Marshall from an analogous context — "absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power, in its own nature illimitable."24 Furthermore, even a rights foundationalist could admit, as John Rawls writes, that... | |
 | Daniel A. Farber, Suzanna Sherry - Law - 2004 - 221 pages
...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...people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | Joy Hakim - America - 2003 - 356 pages
...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...people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. . . . It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those... | |
 | Paul W. Kahn - Law - 1997 - 324 pages
...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...people, to limit a power, in its own nature illimitable. Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
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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. If the former part of the alternative... 
