 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...of the court, " whether an Act repugnant to the Constitution, can become the law of the land, is H question deeply interesting to the United States ;...in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis on which the whole American fabric has been erected. The exercise of this original... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...extraordinary doctrines, which sometimes find their way into opinions possessing official influence. "The question, whether an act, repugnant to the constitution,...in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis, on which the whole American fabric has been erected. The exercise of this... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 686 pages
...recognise certain principles, supposed to have been long 1 and well established, to decide it. That tin' people have an original right to establish for their...in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis on which the whole American fabric has been erected. The exercise of tliis... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...intricacy propor- 1 I Or. TO. ; . I s tioned to its interest. It seems only necessary to recognize certain principles, supposed to have been long and well established, to decide it. f"That the people have an original right to establish, for their future government, such principles... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...must arise from the peculiar character of the case."' Further on, in the same case, he says, —— " That the people have an original right to establish,...as in their opinion shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis on which the whole American fabric has been erected. The exercise of this original... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1841 - 1092 pages
...— 11 Dallas's Rep. p. 304. The Supreme Court of the United States says, by Marshall, Chief Justic " That the people have an original right to establish, for their future go ernment, such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce to th« own happiness, is the... | |
 | Frances Harriet Green - Dorr Rebellion, 1842 - 1844 - 362 pages
...THE PEOPLE. The Supreme Court of the United States, through their Chief Justice, Marshall, say ; " That the People have an original right to establish...in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is THE BASIS ON WHICH THE WHOLE AMERICAN FABRIC HAS SEEN ERECTED." And does not the denial... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Hallett - Constitutional history - 1848 - 84 pages
...to its interest. It seems only necessary to recognize certain principles, supposed to have been long well established, to decide it. That the people have...in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis on which the whole American fabric has been erected. The exercise ol this original... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...constitution can become the law of the land, is a question deeply interesting to the United States. That the people have an original right to establish...in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis on which the whole American fabric has been erected. The exercise of this original... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...United States ; but happily not of an intricacy proportioned to its interest. It seems only to recognize certain principles, supposed to have been long and...as in their opinion shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis on which the whole American fabric has been erected. The exercise of this original... | |
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That the people have an original right to establish, for their future government, such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness is the basis on which the whole American fabric has been erected. The exercise of this original... 
