 I hold it to be a position equally clear and sound, that, in such case, it will be the duty of the court to adhere to the constitution, and to declare the act null and void. The constitution is the basis of legislative authority; it lies at the foundation...  Proceedings of the Canadian Institute - Page 30by Canadian Institute - 1884Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1937 - 1042 pages
...will be the duty of the Court to adhere to the Constitution, and to declare the act null and void. The Constitution is the basis of legislative authority...foundation of all law, and is a rule and commission l>y which both legislators and judges are to proceed. It is an important principle which, in the discussion... | |
 | New Jersey State Bar Association - 1922 - 212 pages
...of the Court to adhere to the Constitution and to declare the ANNUAL MEETING. 123 act null and void. The Constitution is the basis of Legislative authority;...all law and is a rule and commission by which both legislator and judges are to proceed. It is an important principle which in the discussion of the questions... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1882 - 960 pages
...will be tne duty of the Court to adhere to the Constitution, and to declare the act null and void. The Constitution is the basis of legislative authority;...which both Legislators and Judges are to proceed. It is an important principle, which, in the discussion of questions of the present kind, ought never... | |
 | Larry Kramer - 2004 - 380 pages
...will be the duty of the Court to adhere to the Constitution, and to declare the act null and void. The Constitution is the basis of legislative authority;...which both Legislators and Judges are to proceed. It is an important principle, which, in the discussion of questions of the present kind, ought never... | |
 | Canadian Institute - 1884 - 768 pages
...in the United States. With us, as with them, the Constitution is the basis of legislativeauthority ; it lies at the foundation of all law, and is a rule...animus so long as such legislation is kept within its denned limits. The judiciary is, therefore, not a subordinate but a co-ordinate branch of the government... | |
 | 1924 - 120 pages
...will be the duty of the Court to adhere to the Constitution, and to declare the act nujl and void. The Constitution is the basis of legislative authority;...which both legislators and judges are to proceed. Quotations from the decisions of the courts and from commentators on our institutions in support of... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Francis Kernan, Joel Tiffany, Samuel Hand - 1884 - 590 pages
...the legislature is not inherent, but is entirely derived from and subordinate to the constitution. " The constitution is the basis of legislative authority...all law, and is a. rule and commission by which both legistors and judges are to proceed." (2 Dall. 304.) If, therefore, an act of the legislature is contrary... | |
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