It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply the rule to particular cases must of necessity expound and interpret that rule. If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on... The Northeastern Reporter - Page 4151902Full view - About this book
| Horace Binney, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1809 - 676 pages
...repugnant to that instrument is void." p. 180. " It is emphatically the province and duty of the judi" cial department to say what the law is. Those who apply...to particular cases, must of necessity expound and inter•' pret that rule. If two laws conflict with each other, the courts " must decide on the operation... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Court rules - 1812 - 486 pages
...fundamental principles of our socicty. It is not therefore to be lost sight of in the further consideration of this subject. If an act of the legislature, repugnant...conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each. 178 *So if a law be in opposition to the constitution; if both the law and the constitution... | |
| William Wirt - Funeral sermons - 1826 - 690 pages
...legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. 'It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply...conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each. ' So if a law be in opposition to the constitution ; if both the law and the constitution... | |
| Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...invalidity, bind the courts, and oblige them to give it effect' or, in other words, though it be not a law, does it constitute a rule as operative as if...conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each. So, if a law be in opposition to tin' Constitution ; if both the law and the Constitution... | |
| William Sullivan - New England - 1830 - 72 pages
...legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. 'It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply...conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each. ' So if a law be in opposition to the constitution; if both the law and the constitution... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...fundamental principles of our society. It is not, therefore, to be lost sight of in the further consideration of this subject. If an act of the legislature, repugnant...conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each. So if a law be in opposition to the constitution ; if both the law and the constitution... | |
| Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 686 pages
...operative as if it was a law ? This would be to overthrow in fact, what was established in theory j and would seem, at first view, an absurdity too gross...conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each. So, if a law be in opposition to the Constitution; if both the law and the Constitution... | |
| John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...receive a more attentive consideration. jit is emphatically the province and duty j>f the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply...and interpret that rule. If two laws conflict with eacii other, the courts must decide on the operation of each.> So.jif a law be in opposition to the... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1851 - 642 pages
...society. It is not, therefore, to be lost sight of, in the further consideration of this •abject . If an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution,...conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each. So if a law be in opposition to the constitution; if both the law and the constitution... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 830 pages
...terse language of Chief Justice Marshall in Marbury v. Madison, I Cranch, 137-178, is appropriate here: "If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each. So if a law be in opposition to the Constitution, if both the law and the Constitution... | |
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