 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Court rules - 1812 - 486 pages
...forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and, consequently, the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. court, as one of the fundamental principles of our socicty. It is not therefore to be lost sight of... | |
 | William Wirt - Funeral sermons - 1826 - 690 pages
...forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. 'It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an Act of the legislature,...is void. " This theory is essentially attached to written Constitutions, and is consequently to be considered, by this court, as one of \\\e fundamental... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 532 pages
...every government, with a written constitution, forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, must be, that an act of the legislature repugnant to the constitution is void. If void, it cannot bind the courts, and oblige them to give it effect ; for this would be to overthrow,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 538 pages
...every government, with a written constitution, forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, must be, that an act of the legislature repugnant to the constitution is void. If void, it cannot bind the courts, and oblige them to give it effect ; for this would be to overthrow,... | |
 | William Sullivan - New England - 1830 - 72 pages
...forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. 'It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1832 - 590 pages
...every government, with a written constitution, forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, must be, that an act of the legislature repugnant to the constitution is void. If void, it cannot bind the courts, and oblige them to give it eflect ; for this would be to overthrow,... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature,...constitution, and is consequently to be considered by this court, as one of the fundamental principles of our society. It is not, therefore, to be lost sight... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be that an act of the legislature...constitution, and is consequently to be considered by this court as one of the fundamental principles of our society." Notwithstanding the closeness of reasoning... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1851 - 706 pages
...every government, with a written constitution, forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, must be, that an act of the legislature repugnant to the constitution is void. If void, it cannot bind the courts, and oblige them to give it effect ; for this would 1)0 to overthrow... | |
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Certainly all those who have framed written Constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be that an act of the Legislature repugnant to the Constitution... 
