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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. "
The Writings of John Marshall, Late Chief Justice of the United States, Upon ... - Page 22
by John Marshall - 1839 - 728 pages
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the ..., Volume 1

United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1804 - 514 pages
...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....
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 2

Robert Walsh - 1827 - 674 pages
...legislative Act repugnant to it ; or, that the legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary Act. "Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....legislative Act, contrary to the Constitution, is not a law ; if the latter part be true, then written Constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of...
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Commentaries on Statute and Constitutional Law and Statutory and ...

E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1040 pages
...legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....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...
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Lives of Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of America

James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...legislative act repugnant to it, or that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. " Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....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....
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La Revue critique de législation et de jurisprudence du Canada, Volume 2

1872 - 524 pages
...legislative act repugnant to it ; or that the legislature may alter the Constition by an ordinary act. " Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....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...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Ohio, Volume 101

Ohio. Supreme Court - 1921 - 706 pages
...aid is desired. As said by Chief Justice Marshall, in Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch, 137, at page 177: "The constitution is either a superior paramount law,...a legislative act contrary to the constitution is Opinion Per Curiam. not law ; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts,...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Ohio, Volume 102

Ohio. Supreme Court - 1922 - 848 pages
...legislative act repugnant to it ; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. "Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....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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The Central Law Journal, Volume 91

1920 - 516 pages
...legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it." Passing now from the original and earlier development of the doctrine of the police power in the federal...
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Reports ... Proceedings, Volume 13

Ohio State Bar Association - 1892 - 228 pages
...in the celebrated case of Marbury v. Madison, declares: "The constitution is either a superior and paramount law unchangeable by ordinary means, or it...legislative act contrary to the constitution is not a law ; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts on the part of the...
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Proceedings of the Annual Session of the Bar Association of Tennessee, Volume 32

Tennessee Bar Association - 1913 - 282 pages
...legislative act repugnant to it; or that the Legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary Act. Between these alternatives, there is no middle ground....when the legislature shall please to alter it. If an Act of the legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void, does it, notwithstanding its invalidity,...
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