 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Court rules - 1812 - 486 pages
...constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any...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,... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...Constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited? and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any...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,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 538 pages
...written constitution. But to what purpose is that limitation, if those limits may at anytime be passed ? The distinction between a government with limited...the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. If the constitution does not control any legislative... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 532 pages
...written constitution. But to what purpose is that limitation, if those limits may at any time be passed ? The distinction between a government with limited...the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. If the constitution does not control any legislative... | |
 | William Sullivan - New England - 1830 - 72 pages
...constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any...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,... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1832 - 590 pages
...constitution. But to what purpose is that limitation, if those limits may at any time be passed .? The distinction between a government with limited...the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited, and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. If the constitution does not conlrol any legislative... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed 1iy those intended to be restrained ? The distinction, between a government with limited and unlimited... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any...distinction between a government with limited and ur 'imited powers is abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed,... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...the constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any...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,... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may at any time...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,... | |
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To what purpose are powers limited and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained ? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished... 
