 | 1926 - 1034 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 alternative... | |
 | Michel Rosenfeld - 1994 - 452 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 alternative... | |
 | Francis Canavan - 1995 - 192 էջ
...to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional to be implicit in the nature of a written constitution: 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... | |
 | William Bondy - 1998 - 186 էջ
...vs. Madison, was counsel for the plaintiff in the case of Bayard vs. Singleton. (See ante, p. 55.1 purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if...with ordinary legislative acts, and like any other act is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. " If the former part of the alternative... | |
 | Jean Edward Smith - 1998 - 788 էջ
...legislature may alter the Constitution at will. "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." Marshall said it was absolutely... | |
 | Bardo Fassbender - 1998 - 444 էջ
...1803. The reader will recall Chief Justice John Marshall's famous statement in Marbury v. Madison: 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... | |
 | Elliot E. Slotnick - 1999 - 666 էջ
...point in the American genesis of judicial review. Between the 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... | |
 | Andr s Saj¢ - 1999 - 312 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. " Representative William Plumer,... | |
 | Robert M. Hayden - 2000 - 234 էջ
...the supposed constitution, rendering it a logical nullity. As Chief Justice Marshall said in Marbury, "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 10 alter it. ... if the latter part be true,... | |
 | Matthias Jestaedt - 1999 - 456 էջ
...Begründung des Vorrangs der Verfassung durch den Supreme Court im Jahre 1803 zeigt das Dilemma auf: »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 pari 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... 
