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 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1953 - 874 pages
...adopt measures which are prohibited by the constitution ; or should Congress, under the pretext of executing its powers, pass laws for the accomplishment...case requiring such a decision come before it, to say that such an act was not the law of the land. But where the law is not prohibited, and is really calculated... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...adopt measures which are prohibited by the constitution ; or should Congress, under the pretext of executing its powers, pass laws for the accomplishment...case requiring such a decision come before it, to say that such an act was not the law of the land. But where the law is not prohibited, and is really calculated... | |
 | James Madison - Constitutional history - 1819 - 484 pages
...Constitution against legislative encroachments. " Should Congress," say they, " under the pretext of executing its Powers, pass laws for the accomplishment...not entrusted to the Government, it would become the pavnivi. duty of this Tribunal to say that such an act was -not the law of the land." But suppose Congress... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 488 pages
...did in the case of McCulloch and the State of Maryland, "that, should Congress, under the pretext of executing its powers, pass laws for the accomplishment of objects not entrusted to the Government, such acts would be declared by this court not to be the laws of the land;" because, should Congress... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 498 pages
...did in the case of McCulloch and tin Slate of Maryland, "that, should Congress, under the pretext of executing its powers, pass laws for the accomplishment of objects' not entrusted to the Government, such nets would be declared by this court not to be the laws of the land;" because, should Congress... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...adopt measures which are prohibited by the constitution ; or should congress, under the pretext of executing its powers, pass laws for the accomplishment...case requiring such a decision come before it, to say that such an act was not the law of the land. But where the law is not prohibited, and is really calculated... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...should congress, under the pretence of executing its powers, pass laws for the accomplishment of its objects not entrusted to the government, it would...case requiring such a decision come before it, to say that such an act was not the law of the land. But when the law is not prohibited, and is really calculated... | |
 | John Russell Hurd - Business & Economics - 1842 - 114 pages
...adopt measures which are prohibited by the Constitution — or should Congress, under the pretext of executing its powers, pass laws for the accomplishment...case requiring such a decision come before it, to say that such a law was not the la w of the land. But where the law is not prohibited, and is really calculated... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Banks and banking - 1863 - 76 pages
...under the pretext of executing its powers, pass laws for the accomplishment of objects not intrusted to the government, it -would become the painful duty...case requiring such a decision come before it, to say that such an act was not the law of the land. But where the law is not prohibited, and is really calculated... | |
 | James Madison - United States - 1865 - 754 pages
..."under the pretext of executing its powers, pass laws for the accomplishment of objects not intrusted to the government, it would become the painful duty of this tribunal to say that such an act was not the law of the land." But suppose Congress should, as would doubtless... | |
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