 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1969 - 1128 էջ
...government of the United States, then, though limited in its powers, is supreme; and -it я laics, when made in pursuance of the constitution, form the supreme law of the land, "anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrarv notwithstanding." McCulloch v. The... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1969 - 1080 էջ
...universal assent of mankind, we wight expect it would be this — that the government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action. This would seem to result. necessarily, from ita nature. It is the government of all ; its powers are... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control - 1980 - 184 էջ
...regulation. Since the decision in McCulloch v. Maryland, it has been undoubted that the Federal Government, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action. In the exercise of the express as well as the implied powers assigned it, there is no trace of an intent... | |
 | James Boyd White - 1985 - 400 էջ
...universal assent of mankind, we might expect it would be this — that the government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action. This would seem to result necessarily from its nature. It is the government of all; its powers are... | |
 | Tom Christoffel - 1985 - 472 էջ
...of mankind," Marshall wrote, "we might expect it would be this — that the Government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action." This means that when the federal government "preempts the field" by passing laws in a certain subject... | |
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If any one proposition could command the universal assent of mankind, we might expect it would be this: that the government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action. 
