 | Michael Bright (Gen.), Thomas Lloyd - 1809 - 236 էջ
...issued -out of any federal court, in consequence of their obedience to the requisition of the said act. If the legislatures of the several states may at will annul the judgment of the courts of the United States and destroy the rights acquired under those judgments,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1812 - 408 էջ
...issued out of any federal court in consequence of their obedience to the requisition of the said act. If the legislatures of the several states may, at...those judgments, the constitution itself becomes a son-inn mockery; and the nation is deprived of the means of enforcing its laws by the instrumentality... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1838 - 850 էջ
...the judgments of the courts of the United States, aud the rights thereby acquired, the constitution becomes a solemn mockery, and the nation is deprived of the means 6f enforcing its laws by its own tribunal. So fatal a result must be deprecated by all; and the people... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 էջ
...issued out of any federal court in consequence of their obedience to the requisition of the said act. , If the legislatures of the several states may at will...of the courts of the United States, and destroy the right acquired under those judgments, the constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery, and the nation... | |
 | William Alexander Duer - 1843 - 436 էջ
...the judgments of the courts of the United States, and the rights thereby acquired, the Constitution becomes a solemn mockery, and the nation is deprived of the means of enforcing its laws by its own tribunals : so fatal a result must be deprecated by all; and the people of every state must... | |
 | 1845 - 436 էջ
...the judgments of the courts of the United States, and the rights thereby acquired, the Constitution becomes a solemn mockery, and the nation is deprived of the means of enforcing its laws by its own tribunals : so fatal a result must be deprecated by all ; and the people of every state must... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - 1854 - 550 էջ
...United States, or destroy rights acquired under those judgments. " If it were otherwise," he remarks, " the Constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery;...laws, by the instrumentality of its own tribunals." The supremacy of the Federal Judiciary over the State tribunals in cases of constitutional construction,... | |
 | Rollin Carlos Hurd - 1858 - 714 էջ
...execution of the judgment. Chief Justice Marshall, in delivering the opinion of the court, observed, that 'if the legislatures of the several states may, at...laws by the instrumentality of its own tribunals.' He further remarked, "if the ultimate right to determine the jurisdiction of the courts of the Union... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 836 էջ
...secure and attain the ends proposed. Prigg v. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 16 Peters, 539. 42. If the legislatures of the several states may, at will, annul the judgments of courts of the United States, and destroy rights acquired under those judgments, the constitution itself... | |
 | 1901 - 510 էջ
...enacted by a State and were repugnant to the Constitution, were null and void. In one case he said: " If the legislatures of the several States may at will...laws by the instrumentality of its own tribunals. Before these decisions much uncertainty existed and there was considerable variance of opinion among... | |
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If the legislatures of the several states may, at will, annul the judgments of the courts of the United States, and destroy the rights acquired under those judgments, the constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery . . . . 
