 There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid....  The Central Law Journal - Page 3441917Full view - About this book
 | Virginia. General Court, William Brockenbrough, Hugh Holmes - Courts - 1815 - 364 pages
...than that every act of a delegated authority, * Pub. T. 2. p. 293. L " contrary to the tenor of the commission under which " it is exercised, is void....would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than the " principal; that the servant is above his master; that the *' representatives of the people are... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1818 - 882 pages
...on clearer principles, than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of, the commission under which it is exercised, is void, No...that men, acting by virtue of powers, may do not only wlnrf their powers do not authorize, but what they forbids If it be said Unit the legislative body... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1826 - 736 pages
...delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is voidNo legislative act, therefore, contrary to the constitution,...greater than his principal ; that the servant is above liis master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men,... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - United States - 1831 - 758 pages
...on clearer principles, than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenour of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No...be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his * Spirit of Lawi, TOl. I, p•g* 181. principal ; that the servant is above his master ; that the representatives... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative...act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be v;.Iid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principal, that the servant... | |
 | William Alexander Duer - Constitutional law - 1843 - 436 pages
...which depends on clearer principles, than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it is exercised, is void."...legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, which is the commisL sion by which every department of the government equally derives its authority... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1843 - 570 pages
...delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, /.<•• void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid." Judge Tilghman, in Olmstead's case, affirms, "if Congress should pass a bill of attainder, or lay a... | |
 | William Alexander Duer - Constitutional law - 1843 - 442 pages
...commisK sion by which every department of the government equally derives its authority from the people, can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is superior to his principal ; that the servant is above his master ; that the representatives of the... | |
 | Child rearing - 1845 - 436 pages
...which depends on clearer principles, 'than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it is exercised, is void."...legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, which is the commisL sion by which every department of the government equally derives its authority... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1850 - 660 pages
...to suppose that they may violate the fundamental law, is, as has been most eloquently expressed, " to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principal;...the people themselves ; that men acting by virtue of delegated power may do, not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid." The law... | |
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