 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,...  Abraham Lincoln and Constitutional Government - Page 173by Bartow Adolphus Ulrich - 1916Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Law reports, digests, etc - 1804 - 514 pages
...limit a power, in its own nature illimitable. Certainly all thofe who have framed written conftltutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and confequently the theory of every fuch government muft be, that an aft of the legiflature, repugnant... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Court rules - 1812 - 486 pages
...attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. Certainly ail those who have framed written constitutions contemplate...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
...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...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
...attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power, in its na ture illimitable. " Certainly all those who have framed written Constitutions, contemplate...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
...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...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,... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...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...forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, Jand consequently the theory of every such , government must be, that an act of the legislature repugnant... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...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...one of the fundamental principles of our society." Notwithstanding the closeness of reasoning and careful application of deduction in the above syllogistical... | |
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