 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Court rules - 1812 - 486 pages
...persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited *and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that...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.... | |
 | William Wirt - Funeral sermons - 1826 - 690 pages
...persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohihited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that...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.... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...persons on whom they are imposed, and if Acts prohibited, and Acts allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that...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.... | |
 | William Sullivan - New England - 1830 - 72 pages
...persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that...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.... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. \tt is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the...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.... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that...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.... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to-be contested, that the constitution controls any 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.... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that...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.... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - Electronic books - 1854 - 550 pages
...unlimited powers is abolished, if these limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the Constitution controls any legis lative act repugnant to it, or, that the Legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 712 pages
...the persons on whom they are imposed and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested that...legislative act repugnant to it, or that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act." It will be noted that section 1 of the statute under... | |
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It is a proposition too plain to be contested that the Constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it, or that the legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary act. 
