 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 161913Full view - About this book
 | 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.... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1827 - 686 pages
...allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the Constitution controls any legislative Act repugnant to it; or,...legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary Act. " This original and supreme will organizes the government, and assigns to different departments their... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 pages
...allowed are of equal obligation. \tt is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it ; or...legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. 3 .Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution is either a superior, paramount... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 pages
...allowed are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or,...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... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it, or that...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.... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1911 - 712 pages
...allowed are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it, or that...legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act." It will be noted that section 1 of the statute under consideration makes it unlawful to erect a structure... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Alexander James Dallas, William Cranch, United States. Supreme Court, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard - 1870 - 708 pages
...allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or,...legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Marbury v. Madison. 1 C. stitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means,... | |
 | 1872 - 522 pages
...allowed are of equal prohibition. It is a proposition too plaiii to be contested, that the Constitution controls any 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. The Constitution... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1922 - 848 pages
...proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution conDissenting Opinion, per WANAMAKER, J. trols any legislative act repugnant to it ; or, that the...alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it." Cheerfully conceding that the majority have conscientiously arrived at a different conclusion, I have... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1921 - 706 pages
...allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or,...legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. * * * "Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
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