 | George Van Santvoord - 1854 - 554 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,...not law : if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable.... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - 1854 - 550 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,...the Constitution is not law : if the latter part be truey then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power in... | |
 | John Fulton - 1864 - 582 էջ
...alter the Constitution by an ordinary act. " Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The Constitution is either a superior, paramount law,...not law ; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable.... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - 1868 - 532 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,...not law ; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts on the part of the people to limit a power in its own nature illimitable.... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Alexander James Dallas, William Cranch, United States. Supreme Court, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard - 1870 - 708 էջ
...that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Marbury v. Madison. 1 C. stitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by...not law; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable.... | |
 | 1872 - 522 էջ
...may alter the Constition by an ordinary act. " Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The Constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is OD a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1872 - 672 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,...not law: if the latter part be true, then written Constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable.... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1921 - 706 էջ
...aid is desired. As said by Chief Justice Marshall, in Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch, 137, at page 177: "The constitution is either a superior paramount law,...a legislative act contrary to the constitution is Opinion Per Curiam. not law ; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts,... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1922 - 848 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,...alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it." Cheerfully conceding that the majority have conscientiously arrived at a different conclusion, I have... | |
 | 1920 - 516 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,...alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it." Passing now from the original and earlier development of the doctrine of the police power in the federal... | |
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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... 
