 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1804 - 512 pages
...limit a power, in its own nature illimitable. Certainly all thofe who have framed written conftltutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and confequently the theory of every fuch government muft be, that an aft of the legiflature, repugnant... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1812 - 488 pages
...attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. Certainly ail those who have framed written constitutions contemplate...legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. court, as one of the fundamental principles of our socicty. It is not therefore to be lost sight of... | |
 | William Wirt - 1826 - 688 pages
...constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power, in its own nature illimitable. 'Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions,...legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. 'It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1827 - 676 pages
...Constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power, in its na ture illimitable. " Certainly all those who have framed written Constitutions,...legislature, repugnant to the Constitution, is void. " This theory is essentially attached to written Constitutions, and is consequently to be considered,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 532 pages
...every government, with a written constitution, forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, must be, that an act of the legislature repugnant to the constitution is void. If void, it cannot bind the courts, and oblige them to give it effect ; for this would be to overthrow,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 540 pages
...every government, with a written constitution, forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, must be, that an act of the legislature repugnant to the constitution is void. If void, it cannot bind the courts, and oblige them to give it effect ; for this would be to overthrow,... | |
 | William Sullivan - 1830 - 72 pages
...constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power, in its own nature illimitable. 'Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions,...legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. 'It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those... | |
 | James Kent - 1832 - 590 pages
...every government, with a written constitution, forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, must be, that an act of the legislature repugnant to the constitution is void. If void, it cannot bind the courts, and oblige them to give it eflect ; for this would be to overthrow,... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 802 pages
...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,...legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. This theory is essentially attached to a written constitution, and is consequently to be considered... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 pages
...constitutions are absurd attempts on the part of the people to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions...forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, Jand consequently the theory of every such , government must be, that an act of the legislature repugnant... | |
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