 | 1912 - 788 էջ
...alter the constitution by an ordinary act. " Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution is either a superior paramount law,...a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. " If the former part of the... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1888 - 838 էջ
...may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution is either a superior, paramount law,...a level with ordinary legislative acts, and. like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1888 - 834 էջ
...may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution is either a superior, paramount law,...a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative... | |
 | 1888 - 942 էջ
...may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution is either a superior paramount law,...a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative... | |
 | 1903 - 658 էջ
...persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed arc of equal obligation. ... . The Constitution is either a superior paramount law,...a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the Legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative... | |
 | Hawaii. Supreme Court - 1890 - 844 էջ
...great and learned Judge, Chief Justice Marshall, in the case of Marbury vs. Madison, I Crunch, 177 : "The Constitution is either a superior, paramount...a level with ordinary legislative Acts, and, like other Acts, is alterable when the Legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative... | |
 | Hampton Lawrence Carson - 1892 - 472 էջ
...may alter the Constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The Constitution is either a superior paramount law,...a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the Legislature shall please to alter it. . If the former part of the... | |
 | Brinton Coxe - 1893 - 446 էջ
...alternatives there is no middle ground. "The constitution is either a superior, paramount law. un" changeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with or"dinary legislative acts, and like other acts, is alterable " when the legislature shall please to alter it." This is a dilemma, at which... | |
 | James Bradley Thayer - 1894 - 470 էջ
...may alter the Constitution by an ordinary Act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The Constitution is either a superior paramount law,...a level with ordinary legislative Acts, and, like other Acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative... | |
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The constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable, when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative... 
