 | George P. Fletcher, Steve Sheppard - Law - 2005 - 700 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... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 701 pages
...is supreme, then an act of Congress violative of it is not law; if the Constitution is not supreme, then "written constitutions are absurd attempts, on...people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable." Three times in a short space Marshall insists that, for Congress to ignore the limitations which the... | |
 | Brinton Coxe - Constitutional law - 2005 - 434 pages
...either a superior, paramount law, un' ' changeable 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." This is a dilemma, at which the reasoning has arrived, by proceeding through a series of inferences... | |
 | John A. Marini, Ken Masugi - Political Science - 2005 - 406 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."75 1f the Constitution is "superior paramount law," then "a legislative act contrary to the constitution... | |
 | Mark R. Levin - Political Science - 2006 - 308 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... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall, John J. Patrick - History - 2006 - 257 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... | |
 | Michael Townes Watson - Health insurance - 2006 - 477 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 be pleased to alter it....the legislature [could not] change the rules of governing our constitutional... | |
 | Viscount James Bryce - History - 2007 - 741 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...people to limit a power in its own nature illimitable." There is of course this enormous difference between Congress and any subordinate law-making authority... | |
 | Clint Bolick - Law - 2007 - 208 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." He went on to explain the implications of those divergent principles. "If the former part of the alternative... | |
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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... 
