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| United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Court rules - 1812 - 486 pages
...notwithstanding the- express prohibition, is in reality effectual. It would be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence, with the same breath...their powers within narrow limits. It is prescribing Kmils, and declaring that those limits may be passed at pleasure. That it thus reduces to nothing what... | |
| Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...notwithstanding the express prohibition, is in reality effectual. It would be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence, with the same breath...pleasure. "That it thus reduces to nothing, what we deemed the greatest improvement on political institutions, — a written Constitution, — would of... | |
| John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...notwithstanding the express prohibition, is in reality effectual. It would be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence, with the same breath...reduces to nothing what we have deemed the greatest improvemenLon politicalinstitutions, a written constitution, would of itself be sufficient, in America,... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1851 - 642 pages
...notwithstanding the express prohibition, is in reality effectual. It would be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence, with the same breath...where written constitutions have been viewed with so mnch reverence, for rejecting the construction. But the peculiar expressions of the constitution of... | |
| George Sharswood - Legal ethics - 1860 - 212 pages
...notwithstanding the express prohibition, is, in reality, effectual. It would be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence with the same breath...declaring that those limits may be passed at pleasure." (Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch, 177.) More weighty words than these have never, speaking of human things,... | |
| William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 874 pages
...notwithstanding the express prohibition, is in reality effectual. It would be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence with the same breath...declaring that those limits may be passed at pleasure." — CJ MARSHALL, in Marbury tw. Madison, 1 Cranch, 177. In general, in our State constitutions the... | |
| John Fulton - Constitutional history - 1864 - 582 pages
...notwithstanding the express prohibition, is in reality eifectual. It would be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence, with the same breath...have deemed the greatest improvement on political institutions—a written constitution—would of itself be sufficient, in America, where written constitutions... | |
| Impeachments - 1868 - 542 pages
...legislature a practical and real omnipotence with the same breath which professes to restrict their pow rs within narrow limits. It is prescribing limits, and...so much reverence for rejecting the construction. Undoubtedly it is a question of very grave consideration how far the different departments of the government,... | |
| Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 532 pages
...with the same breath which professes to restrict their pow rs within narrow limits. It is.prescribing limits, and declaring that those limits may be passed...so much reverence for rejecting the construction. Undoubtedly it is a question of very grave consideration how far the different departments of the government,... | |
| Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 532 pages
...notwithstanding the express prohibition, is in reality effectual. It would be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence with the same breath which professes to restrict their pow rs within narrow limits. It is prescribing limits, and declaring that those limits may be passed... | |
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