 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1804 - 514 страница
...aft. s V Between thefe alternatives there is no middle ground. The conftitution is either a fuperior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legiflative afts, and like other afts, is alterable when the legiilature fhall pleafe to alter it.... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 страница
...obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it ; or, that the legislature may...either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by irresistible triumph.1 To the people at large, therefore, such an institution, is peculiarly valuable... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1827 - 686 страница
...obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the Constitution controls any legislative Act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary Act. " This original and supreme will organizes the government, and assigns to different departments their... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 страница
...obligation. \tt is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it ; or that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. 3 .Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution is either a superior, paramount... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 страница
...obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may...other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall choose to alter it.(a) § 402. " In the United States, the principle in the English government, that... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 страница
...obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it, or that the legislature may alter...ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legistive acts, and like other acts, it is alterable, when the legislature shall please to alter it.... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1911 - 712 страница
...obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it, or that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act." It will be noted that section 1 of the statute under consideration makes it unlawful to erect a structure... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Alexander James Dallas, William Cranch, United States. Supreme Court, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard - 1870 - 708 страница
...obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Marbury v. Madison. 1 C. stitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means,... | |
 | 1872 - 522 страница
...Constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it ; or that the legislature may alter the Constition by an ordinary act. " Between these alternatives there...paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is OD a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1922 - 848 страница
...be contested, that the constitution conDissenting Opinion, per WANAMAKER, J. trols any legislative act repugnant to it ; or, that the legislature may...alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it." Cheerfully conceding that the majority have conscientiously arrived at a different conclusion, I have... | |
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Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. 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... 
