 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Law reports, digests, etc - 1804 - 514 pages
...aft. s V Between thefe alternatives there is no middle ground. The conftitution is either a fuperior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legiflative afts, and like other afts, is alterable when the legiilature fhall pleafe to alter it.... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 686 pages
...prohibited, and Jlcfs allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the Constitution controls any legislative Act...legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary Act. " This original and supreme will organizes the government, and assigns to different departments their... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. \tt is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act...legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. 3 .Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution is either a superior, paramount... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act...ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legistive acts, and like other acts, it is alterable, when the legislature shall please to alter it.... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 712 pages
...prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested that the constitution controls any legislative act...legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act." It will be noted that section 1 of the statute under consideration makes it unlawful to erect a structure... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Alexander James Dallas, William Cranch, United States. Supreme Court, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 708 pages
...prohibited * and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act...legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Marbury v. Madison. 1 C. stitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means,... | |
 | Jurisprudence - 1872 - 522 pages
...541, 542. acts acts allowed are of equal prohibition. It is a proposition too plaiii to be contested, that the Constitution controls any legislative act...repugnant to it ; or that the legislature may alter the Constition by an ordinary act. " Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The Constitution... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 706 pages
...prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act...legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. * * * "Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | Great Britain. Privy Council. Judicial Committee, Canada. Supreme Court - Canada - 1882 - 934 pages
...obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contultd, that the Constitution controls any legislatiee act repugnant to it; or, that the Legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary ad. "Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The Constitution is either a superior paramount... | |
 | William Henry Rawle - Washington (D.C.) - 1884 - 48 pages
...and in these few words was the demonstration made : " It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the Constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it, or that the legislature can alter the Constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground.... | |
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It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or that the legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary act. 
