 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...  Congressional Serial Set - Page 31913Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1804 - 514 pages
...to the conftitution is not law : if the latter part be true, then written conllitutions are abfurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power, in its own nature illimitable. Certainly all thofe who have framed written conftltutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1812 - 486 pages
...are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to...people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. Certainly ail those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | William Wirt - 1826 - 690 pages
...abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohihited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a...people, to limit a power, in its own nature illimitable. 'Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions, contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1827 - 674 pages
...former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative Act, contrary to the Constitution, is not a law ; if the latter part be true, then written Constitutions...on the part of the people, to limit a power, in its na ture illimitable. " Certainly all those who have framed written Constitutions, contemplate them... | |
 | William Sullivan - 1830 - 72 pages
...defined, and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and 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... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 pages
...to the constitution is not law ; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are obsurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power, in its own nature illimitable. " Certainly all those, who have framed written constitutions, contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1827 - 686 pages
...part of the alternative be true, then a legislative Act, contrary to the Constitution, is not a la\u; if the latter part be true, then written Constitutions...on the part of the people, to limit a power, in its na ture illimitable. " Certainly all those who have framed written Constitutions, contemplate them... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 pages
...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....people to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...unchangeable by 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...people to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. " Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions, contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1851 - 642 pages
...constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitatiou committed to writing, if these limits may at any time...of the people to limit a power, in its own nature 1llimitable. " Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming... | |
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