The Constitutional Review, Volume 9National Association for Constitutional Government, 1925 - Constitutional law Includes section "Book reviews". |
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... supreme judicial power was to be executed by the State Court elected by the Con- stituent Assembly . The Constituent Assembly , Government of the Repub- lic , and State Court were to execute the power given to them " unceasingly keeping ...
... supreme judicial power was to be executed by the State Court elected by the Con- stituent Assembly . The Constituent Assembly , Government of the Repub- lic , and State Court were to execute the power given to them " unceasingly keeping ...
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... Supreme Court . The amount of salary can be altered , but becomes effective only for subsequent Assem- blies . The State Assembly passes laws , fixes the budget , State revenue and expenditure , decides about loans and other matters ...
... Supreme Court . The amount of salary can be altered , but becomes effective only for subsequent Assem- blies . The State Assembly passes laws , fixes the budget , State revenue and expenditure , decides about loans and other matters ...
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... courts from the execu- tive and legislative branch is a gen- eral rule . The supreme judicial power is exercised by the State Court of Justice , composed of the State judges , who are elected by the State Assembly . All other judges ...
... courts from the execu- tive and legislative branch is a gen- eral rule . The supreme judicial power is exercised by the State Court of Justice , composed of the State judges , who are elected by the State Assembly . All other judges ...
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... Court has pro- claimed that it has the power to pass on the constitutionality of the laws , similar to the Supreme Court of this country , although there is no direct provision to this effect in the Consti- tition . The State Court ...
... Court has pro- claimed that it has the power to pass on the constitutionality of the laws , similar to the Supreme Court of this country , although there is no direct provision to this effect in the Consti- tition . The State Court ...
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... courts continued , espe- cially upon the Supreme Court of the United States , because any change in legislation would be ineffectual so long as the final decision remained in the hands of a body , held to be au- thorized by the ...
... courts continued , espe- cially upon the Supreme Court of the United States , because any change in legislation would be ineffectual so long as the final decision remained in the hands of a body , held to be au- thorized by the ...
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Page 151 - The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the State to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only. The child is not the mere creature of the State; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations.
Page 237 - British parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed...
Page 229 - Every subject has a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches, and seizures, of his person, his houses, his papers, and all his possessions. All warrants, therefore, are contrary to this right, if the cause or foundation of them be not previously supported by oath or affirmation...
Page 58 - I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.
Page 237 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Page 238 - We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We. have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.
Page 165 - If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or honor, or shall, without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office, or emolument, of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince, or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them.
Page 151 - Under the doctrine of Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 US 390, we think it entirely plain that the Act of 1922 unreasonably interferes with the liberty of parents and guardians to direct the upbringing and education of children under their control.
Page 7 - International law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction, as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination.
Page 27 - The instrument was not intended to provide merely for the exigencies of a few years, but was to endure through a long lapse of ages, the events of which were locked up in the inscrutable purposes of Providence.