 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...  American Quarterly Review - Page 183edited by - 1827Full view - About this book
 | 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.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Court rules - 1812 - 486 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....legislative act contrary to the constitution is not law : if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the... | |
 | William Wirt - Funeral sermons - 1826 - 690 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....legislative act contrary to the constitution is not law; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the... | |
 | William Sullivan - New England - 1830 - 72 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....legislative act contrary to the constitution is not law; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...be eminently cherished by them. On its firm and indeordinary means, or it is on a level wi'h ordmary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable,...legislative act contrary to the constitution is not law ; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are obsurd attempts, on the part of the... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...legislative act repugnant to it ; or that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. 3 .Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....legislative act contrary to the constitution is not law ; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts on the part of the... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 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....other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall choose to alter it.(a) ยง 402. " In the United States, the principle in the English government, that... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 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....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.... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1851 - 642 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....legislative act contrary to the constitution, is not law; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts on the part of the... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - Judges - 1854 - 554 pages
...lative act repugnant to it, or, that the Legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law : if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the... | |
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