 | Constantine Edward McGuire - Catholics - 1923 - 446 pages
...questions would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy." Marshall answered this by saying that "the Constitution is either a superior paramount law,...ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary acts alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. It is emphatically the province and duty... | |
 | North American review - 1924 - 924 pages
...quoting Chief Justice Marshall in the celebrated case of Marbury vs. Madison, 1 Crunch 187, as follows: The Constitution is either a superior paramount law,...If the former part of the alternative be true, then the legislative act contrary to the Constitution is no law. If the latter part be true, then written... | |
 | Harold Edgar Barnes, B. A. Milner - Constitutional law - 1924 - 440 pages
...legislative act repugnant to it; or that the legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordiIf the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the Constitution... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1924 - 1188 pages
...The argument of John Marshall in Marbury vs. Madison has never been successfully refuted. He said: The Constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on the level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts is alterable when the Legislature shall... | |
 | Everett Kimball - Local government - 1924 - 800 pages
...Constisu°'reme1orS tution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary on a level means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and like other oTcongress acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. ... court must It is emphatically... | |
 | Law - 1920 - 512 pages
...legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1972 - 1442 pages
...legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. > Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....alterable when the legislature shall please to alter It. * « * * * * . * Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming... | |
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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 please to alter it. 
