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... body of persons could claim to be its creators , no one could point to the document which contained its clauses ; it was in short a thing by itself , which Englishmen and foreigners alike should " venerate , where they are not able ...
... body of persons could claim to be its creators , no one could point to the document which contained its clauses ; it was in short a thing by itself , which Englishmen and foreigners alike should " venerate , where they are not able ...
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... body in which resides the legisla- tive sovereignty of the United States . Story and Kent therefore knew with precision the nature and limits of the department of law on which they in- tended to comment ; they knew also what was the ...
... body in which resides the legisla- tive sovereignty of the United States . Story and Kent therefore knew with precision the nature and limits of the department of law on which they in- tended to comment ; they knew also what was the ...
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... body ; the construction , office , and jurisdiction of courts of justice . The constitution is one principal division , section , or title of the code of public laws , dis- " tinguished from the rest only by the superior importance of ...
... body ; the construction , office , and jurisdiction of courts of justice . The constitution is one principal division , section , or title of the code of public laws , dis- " tinguished from the rest only by the superior importance of ...
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... body of undoubted law ; the other element , here called the " conventions of the constitution , " consists of maxims or practices which , though they regulate the ordinary conduct of the Crown and of Ministers and of others under the ...
... body of undoubted law ; the other element , here called the " conventions of the constitution , " consists of maxims or practices which , though they regulate the ordinary conduct of the Crown and of Ministers and of others under the ...
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... body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament . A law may , for our present purpose , be defined as " any rule which will be enforced by the Courts . " The principle ...
... body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament . A law may , for our present purpose , be defined as " any rule which will be enforced by the Courts . " The principle ...
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Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution Albert Venn Dicey Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1889 |
Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution Albert Venn Dicey Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1889 |
Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution Albert Venn Dicey Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1889 |
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Էջ 271 - I can, at any rate, show that the experiments made with it at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century fully confirm the high encomium bestowed by Dioscorides upon his indicum.
Էջ 37 - It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws, concerning matters of all possible denominations, ecclesiastical, or temporal, civil, military, maritime, or criminal ; this being the place where that absolute despotic power, which must in all governments reside somewhere, is intrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms.
Էջ 153 - WHEREAS the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick have expressed their Desire to be federally united into One Dominion under the Crown of the United Kingdom...
Էջ 149 - A final judgment or decree in any suit, in the highest court of law or equity of a State in which a decision in the suit could be had...
Էջ 38 - VIII. and his three children. It can change and create afresh even the constitution of the kingdom and of Parliaments themselves ; as was done by the Act of Union, and the several statutes for triennial and septennial elections. It can, in short, do everything that is not naturally impossible ; and therefore some have not scrupled to call its power, by a figure rather too bold, the omnipotence of Parliament.
Էջ 40 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Էջ 61 - America, or relates thereto, it has been declared, " that the King and Parliament of Great Britian will not impose any duty, tax, or assessment whatever, payable in any of His Majesty's colonies, provinces, and plantations in North America or the West Indies, except only such duties as it may be expedient to impose for the regulation of commerce...
Էջ 37 - The power and jurisdiction of Parliament, says Sir Edward Coke (4 Inst., 36), is so transcendent and absolute, that it cannot be confined, either for causes or persons, within any bounds. And of this high court, he adds, it may be truly said, 'si antiquitatem species, est vetustissima; si dignitatem, est honoratissima; si jurisdictionem, est capacissima.
Էջ 39 - An Act declaring the rights and liberties of the Subject and settling the Succession of the Crown...
Էջ 188 - It means, again, equality before the law, or the equal subjection of all classes to the ordinary law of the land administered by the ordinary Law Courts...