...writer, as things are today with no other substitute, would agree with Mr. Justice Holmes in saying, "I do not think the United States would come to an end if we (the Supreme Court) lost our power to declare an act of Congress void. I do think the Union would be...

...Secretary KENNETH C. SEARS, COLUMBIA Treasurer DELL D. DUTTON, KANSAS CITY CONSTITUTIONAL SUPREMACY— I do not think the United States would come to an end if we lost our power to declare an _Act of Congress void. I do think the Union would be imperiled if we could not make that declaration...

...state, there was a general cause at work that made the state ready to perish by a single battle or a law. Hence I am not much interested one way or the...United! States would come to an end if we lost our power \l \f to declare an Act of Congress void. I do think the v\ Union would be imperiled if we could not...

...on the whole, it is probably true that, as Judge Holmes recently said, "The United States would not come to an end if we lost our power to declare an Act of Congress void." 2 If, on the contrary, the Court should be deprived of its other power — that of determining the...

...an address before Harvard Law School Association, February 13, 1913: ' ' The United States would not come to an end if we lost our power to declare an Act of Congress void. * * * I do not think the Union would be imperilled if we could not make that declaration as to the laws of the...

...utterances. The importance with which he regards it may be realized from what he said in a speech in 1913: " I do not think the United States would come to an...Act of Congress void. I do think the Union would be emperiled if we could not make that declaration as to the laws of the several states. For one in my...

...utterances. The importance with which he regards it may be realized from what he said in a speech in 1913 : " I do not think the United States would come to an...Act of Congress void. I do think the Union would be emperiled if 'we could not make that declaration as to the laws of the several states. For one in my...

...objects for which it exists. Justice Holmes of the US Supreme Court in a public address« has said: I do not think the United States would come to an end if we [the US Supreme Court] lost our power to declare an 1 McMaster, History of the People of the United...

...Holmes, in an address before the Harvard Law School in 1913 declared: "The United States would not come to an end if we lost our power to declare an Act of Congress void." Only four federal statutes of the first eignty years were declared to be unconstitutional, and only...

...privileges or immunities of citizens of the United 1 Justice HoliiwH said in an address in 1913 : " I do not think the United States would come to an end if we [the Supreme Court] lost our power to declare an act of Congress void. I do think the Union would be...