 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Law reports, digests, etc - 1804 - 514 pages
...aft. s V Between thefe alternatives there is no middle ground. The conftitution is either a fuperior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legiflative afts, and like other afts, is alterable when the legiilature fhall pleafe to alter it.... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...plain to-be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary...other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall choose to alter it.(a) § 402. " In the United States, the principle in the English government, that... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it, or that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary...ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legistive acts, and like other acts, it is alterable, when the legislature shall please to alter it.... | |
 | Jurisprudence - 1872 - 522 pages
...Constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it ; or that the legislature may alter the Constition by an ordinary act. " Between these alternatives there...paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is OD a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 848 pages
...constitution conDissenting Opinion, per WANAMAKER, J. trols any legislative act repugnant to it ; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary...alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it." Cheerfully conceding that the majority have conscientiously arrived at a different conclusion, I have... | |
 | Law - 1920 - 516 pages
...plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary...alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it." Passing now from the original and earlier development of the doctrine of the police power in the federal... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - Bar associations - 1913 - 282 pages
...too plain to be contested, that the Constitution combats any legislative act repugnant to it; or that the Legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary...when the legislature shall please to alter it. If an Act of the legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void, does it, notwithstanding its invalidity,... | |
 | Missouri Bar Association - Bar associations - 1913 - 244 pages
...certainty of a mathematical demonstration." The language of Chief Justice Marshall is clear and conclusive. "The Constitution is either a superior, paramount...on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and like any other act, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - Electronic books - 1882 - 760 pages
...plain to be contested, that the Constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it, or, that the Legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary...like other acts, is alterable when the Legislature snail please to alter it. " If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary... | |
 | Judges - 1884 - 108 pages
...contested, that the Constitution controls any legislative ad: repugnant to it, or that the legislature can alter the Constitution by an ordinary act. Between...level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acls, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative... | |
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Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. 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... 
