 | 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 - 674 pages
...controls any legislative Act repugnant to it ; or, that the legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary Act. "Between these alternatives there is...legislative Act, contrary to the Constitution, is not a law ; if the latter part be true, then written Constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...controls any legislative act repugnant to it ; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is...either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by irresistible triumph.1 To the people at large, therefore, such an institution, is peculiarly valuable... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 686 pages
...powers. It may either stop here, or establish certain limits not to be transcended by those departments. "Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....legislative Act, contrary to the Constitution, is not a la\u; if the latter part be true, then written Constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is...other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall choose to alter it.(a) § 402. " In the United States, the principle in the English government, that... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...controls any legislative act repugnant to it, or that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. " Between these alternatives there is...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.... | |
 | Jurisprudence - 1872 - 522 pages
...controls any legislative act repugnant to it ; or that the legislature may alter the Constition by an ordinary act. " Between these alternatives there is...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... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 706 pages
...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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 848 pages
...trols any legislative act repugnant to it ; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. "Between these alternatives there is...alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it." Cheerfully conceding that the majority have conscientiously arrived at a different conclusion, I have... | |
 | Law - 1920 - 516 pages
...controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is...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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Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. 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... 
