 | John Forrest Dillon - 1903 - 548 pages
...and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act...attempts on the part of the people to limit a power in own nature illimitable." Here was established one of the great foundation principles of the government,... | |
 | University of Chicago - 1903 - 378 pages
...alternative be tine, then a legislative act, contrary to the Constitution, is not law; if the latter part bo true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts,...people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. In this opinion Justice Marshall, with his usual clearness, expresses what perhaps we may call the... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - 1903 - 586 pages
...If the first be true, then a legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law; if the other be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts...on the part of the people to limit a power in its natnre illimitable. The decision was of far-reaching importance £\nd lies at the foundation of our... | |
 | 1903 - 280 pages
...contrary to the Constitution is not law: if the latter part be true, then written constitu[69] tions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. "Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | 1923 - 512 pages
...alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the Constitution, is not law; but if the latter be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts,...of the people, to limit a power in its own nature unlimitable." THE ATTITUDE OF MIND OF THE FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION With these preliminary considerations,... | |
 | 1904 - 1072 pages
...not law; if the latter part be true, then written COTIstitutions are absurd attempts, on the pari. of the people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | John Marshall - 1905 - 518 pages
...and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act...people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | Hans Tobler - 1905 - 818 pages
...constitution is not law: if the latter part be true [vgl. Chase in Cooper va. Telfair, 4 Dallas 18, 19] then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a government, in its own nature illimitable It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial... | |
 | Le Baron Bradford Colt - 1906 - 190 pages
...and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act...people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. " Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | Frank Hendrick - 1906 - 604 pages
...like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall be pleased to alter it. "'If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act...attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power of its own nature illimitable. "'Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate... | |
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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. If the former part of the alternative... 
