 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Law reports, digests, etc - 1804 - 514 pages
...to the conftitution is not law : if the latter part be true, then written conllitutions are abfurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power, in its own nature illimitable. Certainly all thofe who have framed written conftltutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Court rules - 1812 - 486 pages
...may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution is either a superior paramount law,...limit a power in its own nature illimitable. Certainly ail those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative Act, contrary to the Constitution, is not a law ; if the latter part be true, then written Constitutions...on the part of the people, to limit a power, in its na ture illimitable. " Certainly all those who have framed written Constitutions, contemplate them... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 686 pages
...part of the alternative be true, then a legislative Act, contrary to the Constitution, is not a la\u; if the latter part be true, then written Constitutions...on the part of the people, to limit a power, in its na ture illimitable. " Certainly all those who have framed written Constitutions, contemplate them... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1851 - 642 pages
...may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution is either a superior, paramount law,...of the people to limit a power, in its own nature 1llimitable. " Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 706 pages
...the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the constitution is Opinion Per Curiam. not law ; if the latter part be true, then written...people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable." For these reasons the judgment of the court of appeals will be affirmed. Judgment affirmed. NICHOLS,... | |
 | Missouri Bar Association - Bar associations - 1913 - 244 pages
...unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and like any other act, is alterable when the legislature shall please to...people to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. . . . If an act of a legislature, repugnant to the Constitution, is void, does it, notwithstanding... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1892 - 228 pages
...former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the constitution is not a law ; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions...on the part of the people to limit a power in its nature illimita.ble." "Our American system of government," said the President of the American Bar Association... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1900 - 240 pages
...uncontrollable interpretation of the legislative body "then," to quote Chief Justice Maishall, " these written constitutions are absurd attempts on the part of the people to limit a power in its nature illimitable." Another question at oncc arose under our national constitution much akin to the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 758 pages
...may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. "The constitution is either a superior paramount law,...the part of the people, to limit a power in its own natvire illimitable. Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as... | |
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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 please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative... 
