 | Michel Mathieu - Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 600 pages
...unchangeable by ordinary mean*, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other aets, is alterable when the Legislature shall please to...people to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. Certainly all those who have framed written Constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | Emlin McClain - Constitutional law - 1900 - 1126 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1900 - 778 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. If an act of the legislature, repugnant to the Constitution, is void, does it, notwithstanding its... | |
 | Emlin McClain - Constitutional law - 1900 - 1134 pages
...paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts. and. hke other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall...people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 1152 pages
...when the legislature shall please to alter it If the former part of the alternative be true, then the legislative act contrary to the constitution is not...people to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplated them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | George Cary Eggleston - Biography & Autobiography - 1901 - 528 pages
...either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary measures, 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." If Chief Justice Marshall had done nothing else in all his life than deliver this one decision his... | |
 | John Allen Shauck - John Marshall Day - 1901 - 26 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... | |
 | Horace Gray - Judges - 1901 - 74 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... | |
 | Bar Association of St. Louis - Judges - 1901 - 110 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. "It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 686 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...contrary to the Constitution is not law ; if the latter Opinion of the Court. part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of... | |
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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... 
