 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1812 - 486 էջ
...forbidden, such act, notwithstanding the- express prohibition, is in reality effectual. It would be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence,...their powers within narrow limits. It is prescribing Kmils, and declaring that those limits may be passed at pleasure. That it thus reduces to nothing what... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1827 - 674 էջ
...forbidden, such Act, notwithstanding the express prohibition, is in reality effectual. It would be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence,...pleasure. "That it thus reduces to nothing, what we deemed the greatest improvement on political institutions, — a written Constitution, — would of... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 էջ
...forbidden, such act, notwithstanding the express prohibition, is in reality effectual. It would be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence,...reduces to nothing what we have deemed the greatest improvemenLon politicalinstitutions, a written constitution, would of itself be sufficient, in America,... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1851 - 642 էջ
...forbidden, such act, notwithstanding the express prohibition, is in reality effectual. It would be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence,...where written constitutions have been viewed with so mnch reverence, for rejecting the construction. But the peculiar expressions of the constitution of... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860 - 874 էջ
...forbidden, such act, notwithstanding the express prohibition, is in reality effectual. It would be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence...declaring that those limits may be passed at pleasure." — CJ MARSHALL, in Marbury tw. Madison, 1 Cranch, 177. In general, in our State constitutions the... | |
 | George Sharswood - 1860 - 212 էջ
...forbidden, such act, notwithstanding the express prohibition, is, in reality, effectual. It would be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence...declaring that those limits may be passed at pleasure." (Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch, 177.) More weighty words than these have never, speaking of human things,... | |
 | John Fulton - 1864 - 582 էջ
...forbidden, such act, notwithstanding the express prohibition, is in reality eifectual. It would be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence,...have deemed the greatest improvement on political institutions—a written constitution—would of itself be sufficient, in America, where written constitutions... | |
 | 1868 - 542 էջ
...forbidden, such act, notwithstanding the express prohibition, is in reality effectual. It would be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence...the same breath which professes to restrict their pow rs within narrow limits. It is prescribing limits, and declaring that those limits may be passed... | |
 | 1901 - 510 էջ
...Constitution or the legislative act. If the statute controlled, then Marshall observed " it reduced to nothing what we have deemed the greatest improvement...political institutions — a written Constitution — and this is of itself sufficient in America, where written Constitutions have been viewed with... | |
 | 1872 - 522 էջ
...forbidden, such act. notwithstanding the express prohibition, is in reality effectual. It would be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence,...declaring that those limits may be passed at pleasure." The principles advanced by Marshall CJ in the foregoing extract from the judgment in Marbury vs. Madison,... | |
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This doctrine would subvert the very foundation of all written constitutions. It would declare that an act which, according to the principles and theory of our government, is entirely void, is yet, in practice, completely obligatory. It would declare... 
