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Executive Power - Page 12
by Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1862 - 34 pages
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Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting

California Bar Association - Bar associations - 1923 - 978 pages
...our Supreme Court have been usurpers in their efforts to comply with their oaths of office and uphold the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land. A Self-Governing- Bar. The paramount duty immediately confronting us is to secure the enactment by...
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The Outlook, Volume 109

United States - 1915 - 1134 pages
...the legislative nullification which Calhoun had attempted in South Carolina. He had sworn to regard the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land and the National authority as paramount over that of the States. He could not violate that oath, no...
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The Constitutional Review, Volume 10

Constitutional law - 1926 - 276 pages
...the following features: First, the establishment of a federal or dual system of government in which the Constitution of the United States, as the supreme law of the land, distributed the powers between the states and the national government, the latter being a government...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 70

American periodicals - 1861 - 810 pages
...of secession to the latter, on any ground or under any pretence, it ordains and establishes in terms the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land, any thing in the Constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding. It would seem that...
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Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States ..., Book 28

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 1228 pages
...which thus affect the government or the individual can never be upheld in any tribunal which recognizes the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land. Neither the unlawf ul proceedings of the Confederate Government nor the judgment of its unauthorized...
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Administrative procedure - 1959 - 1668 pages
...was very glad to see that Mr. Mays conceded to be the fact. of their constitutional rights, put under the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land. I think it is very clear that it would also obviate the doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson. A State could...
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Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of ..., Volume 144

California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 978 pages
...By the part thereof relied on, no more was intended or accomplished than the recognition in terms of the constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land as to all matters provided for therein, which was necessarily the fact whether so recognized or not,...
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Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1994 ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies - Political Science - 1993 - 1548 pages
...Nations and ratified by the Congress of the United States, but these Treaties which are recognized under the Constitution of the United States as the 'Supreme Law of the Land' are overlooked by an Administration whose intent may be to cut the health care of Indian people drastically....
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Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln

Don Fehrenbacher, Virginia Fehrenbacher - History - 1996 - 674 pages
...should be the spontaneous action of the people. Let the conventions adopt a constitution recognizing the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land, and, with other usual provisions, make their laws accordingly by their legislatures. Then they would,...
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Betsy Ross: Patriot of Philadelphia

Judith St. George - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1997 - 140 pages
...gathered in taverns and coffee houses. Finally, on September 17, 1787, the delegates voted to adopt the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land. In celebration of both the Constitution and the Fourth of July, on July 4, 1788, Philadelphia put on...
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