 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1812 - 486 էջ
...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...repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution... | |
 | William Wirt - 1826 - 690 էջ
...and to what purpose is that limit7 60 ntion committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained? The...the 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,... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1827 - 674 էջ
...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...repugnant to it ; or, that the legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary Act. "Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The Constitution... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 532 էջ
...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...prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. If the constitution does not control any legislative act repugnant to it, then the legislature may... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 538 էջ
...written constitution. But to what purpose is that limitation, if those limits may at anytime be passed ? The distinction between a government with limited...prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. If the constitution does not control any legislative act repugnant to it, then the legislature may... | |
 | William Sullivan - 1830 - 72 էջ
...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...repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. ' Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution... | |
 | James Kent - 1832 - 590 էջ
...constitution. But to what purpose is that limitation, if those limits may at any time be passed .? The distinction between a government with limited...prohibited, and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. If the constitution does not conlrol any legislative act repugnant to it, then the legislature may... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 էջ
...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,...repugnant to it ; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1827 - 686 էջ
...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...whom they are imposed, and if Acts prohibited, and Jlcfs allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the Constitution... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 էջ
...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 ur 'imited powers is abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed,... | |
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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... 
