 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Law reports, digests, etc - 1804 - 514 pages
...to the conftitution is not law : if the latter part be true, then written conllitutions are abfurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power, in its own nature illimitable. Certainly all thofe who have framed written conftltutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Court rules - 1812 - 486 pages
...true, then a legislative act contrary to the constitution is not law : if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the...people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. Certainly ail those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | William Wirt - Funeral sermons - 1826 - 690 pages
...true, then a legislative act contrary to the constitution is not law; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the...people, to limit a power, in its own nature illimitable. 'Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions, contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...then a 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 the people, to limit a power, in its na ture illimitable. " Certainly all those who have framed written Constitutions, contemplate them... | |
 | William Sullivan - New England - 1830 - 72 pages
...true, then a legislative act contrary to the constitution is not law; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the...people, to limit a power, in its own nature illimitable. 'Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions, contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...to the constitution is not law ; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are obsurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power, in its own nature illimitable. " Certainly all those, who have framed written constitutions, contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...true, then a legislative act contrary to the constitution is not law ; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts on the part...people to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...true, then a legislative act contrary to the constitution is not law; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts on the part...people to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. " Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions, contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1851 - 642 pages
...true, then a legislative act contrary to the constitution, is 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 1llimitable. " Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - Judges - 1854 - 554 pages
...true, then a legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law : if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the...people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. " Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
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If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the Constitution is 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. 
