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" Certainly all those who have framed written Constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be that an act of the Legislature repugnant to the Constitution... "
Constitutional Restraints Upon the Judiciary: Hearings Before the ... - Page 459
by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution - 1982 - 591 pages
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the ..., Volume 1

United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1812 - 486 pages
...contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and, consequently, the theory of every such government must be, that an act...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...
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A Discourse on the Lives and Characters of Thomas Jefferson and ..., Volume 1

William Wirt - 1826 - 690 pages
...constitutions, contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act...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...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 2

Robert Walsh - 1827 - 674 pages
...Constitutions, contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an Act...is void. " This theory is essentially attached to written Constitutions, and is consequently to be considered, by this court, as one of \\\e fundamental...
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The North American Review, Volume 24

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,...
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The North American Review, Volume 24

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 538 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,...
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A Discourse Delivered Before the Pilgrim Society, at Plymouth, on the Twenty ...

William Sullivan - 1830 - 72 pages
...constitutions, contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act...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...
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Commentaries on American Law, Volume 1

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,...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 2

Robert Walsh - 1827 - 686 pages
...repugnant to the Constitution, is void. " This theory is essentially attached to written Constitutions, and is consequently to be considered, by this court,...one of the fundamental principles of our society. It is not therefore to be lost sight of in the further consideration of this subject." We would beg...
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The Writings of John Marshall, Late Chief Justice of the United States, Upon ...

John Marshall - 1839 - 762 pages
...contemplate them as 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 to A the constitution is void.3 This theory is essentially attached to a written constitution, and is...
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Lives of Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of America

James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...constitutions, contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be that an act...one of the fundamental principles of our society." Notwithstanding the closeness of reasoning and careful application of deduction in the above syllogistical...
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