| Le Baron Bradford Colt - 1906 - 190 էջ
...will organizes the government, and assigns to different departments their respective powers. . . . 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... | |
| New York (State). Public Service Commission. First District - 1912 - 1052 էջ
...beneficent results. In the language of Chief Justice MARSHALL in Marbury v. Madison, (1 Cranch, 137.) "The Constitution is either a superior, paramount...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... | |
| Henry Newton Ess - 1907 - 420 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,...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... | |
| Westel Woodbury Willoughby, John Archibald Fairlie, Frederic Austin Ogg - 1908 - 718 էջ
...legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary act." " The Constitution is either a superior paramount law,...a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it." " Certainly all those who have... | |
| Samuel Furman Hunt - 1908 - 528 էջ
...in the celebrated case of Marbury v. Madison, declares: "The constitution is either a superior and paramount law unchangeable by ordinary means, or it...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 alternatives... | |
| Samuel Furman Hunt - 1908 - 530 էջ
...Marshall, in the celebrated case of Marbury vs. Madison, says: , "The constitution is either a superior and paramount law unchangeable by ordinary means, or it...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... | |
| Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent - 1909 - 504 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 order it. If the former part of the alternative... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - 1909 - 1212 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... | |
| Charles Grove Haines - 1909 - 194 էջ
...alter the Constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is JK>^ middle ground. The Constitution is either a superior paramount law...ordinary means, or it is on a level with ; ordinary acts alterable when the legislature shall please to alter .' it. If the former part of the alternative... | |
| Charles Austin Beard - 1914 - 694 էջ
...no middle ground. The Th« Constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by b either ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative Acts, paramount, and, like other Acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please ° to alter it. If... | |
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