| John Bristed - Economic history - 1818 - 528 pages
...him, even in a state, the municipal law of which has abolished or prohibited slavery, be'" cause the constitution of the United States is the supreme law...all penal or criminal matters, municipal law permits no interference on the part of local law, MISCELLANEOUS POWERS Off CONGRESS. 197 and the lex loci not... | |
| Albert Picket - American literature - 1820 - 314 pages
...th» sovereignty. 9. All legislative power, granted by the constitution, is vested in congress. 8. The constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land. All judicial officers of the United States are bound by oath to support it. 10. The judicial power... | |
| William Latta McCalla - Baptism - 1831 - 410 pages
...law. Between these two there is no more discrepancy, than there is in saying with one breath that the constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land,, and with another breath, that it is our great political covenant or federal compact. My Opponent speaks... | |
| Methodist Church - 1833 - 516 pages
...misapply the law, it does not alter the nature of the law itself, nor render it less infallible. The constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land ; and when an American citizen professes his belief in the binding force of that instrument, declaring... | |
| Edward Hazen - Industrial arts - 1836 - 462 pages
...of the different states, have been established, and by which they are governed in their action. The constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land. 3. Municipal law embraces those rules of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power of the state,... | |
| The Senate of the United States.First Session of the Twenty-Sixth Congress. - 1840 - 1154 pages
...between independent sovereignties. I most readily and cheerfully give my assent to the position, that the constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land, and entitled to perfect respect and obedience; and I trust I shall never be instrumental, in any degree,... | |
| New York (State). Legislature. Senate - Government publications - 1850 - 736 pages
...the inviolability of contracts, and no law which the State Legislature can enact can, so long as the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land, subvert or destroy the great principle on which all rights to property rest. Indeed the right of property... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1855 - 714 pages
...gentlemen, on both sides of this question ; and he would beg leave to give it his construction. The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land, and, like all other laws, when any doubts arise as respects its meaning, some fixed rules must be resorted... | |
| United States - 1856 - 654 pages
...If so, I shall be glad to hear him. Tbe argument for this new Democratic dogma is as follows : " The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land. It guaranties equality of rights to all the States, and to all the citizens of the United States. The... | |
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