If the legislatures of the several states may, at will, annul the judgments of the courts of the United States, and destroy the rights acquired under those judgments, the constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery, and the nation is deprived of the... The United States Government - Page 66by Everett Kimball - 1924 - 785 pagesFull view - About this book
| Michael Bright (Gen.), Thomas Lloyd - Federal-state controversies - 1809 - 236 pages
...requisition of the said act. If the legislatures of the several states may at will annul the judgment of the courts of the United States and destroy the rights...laws by the instrumentality of its own tribunals. So fatal a result must be deprecated by all; and the people of Pennsylvania, not less than the citizens... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Law reports, digests, etc - 1812 - 408 pages
...federal court in consequence of their obedience to the requisition of the said act. If the legislatures of the several states may, at will, annul the judgments...laws by the instrumentality of its own tribunals. So fatal a result must be deprecated by all ; and the people of Pennsylvania, not less than the citizens... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1812 - 408 pages
...federal court in consequence of their obedience to the requisition of the said act. If the legislatures of the several states may, at will, annul the judgments...those judgments, the constitution itself becomes a son-inn mockery; and the nation is deprived of the means of enforcing its laws by the instrumentality... | |
| 1819 - 552 pages
...court, in their opinion delivered by chief justice Marshal, • may, at will, annul the judgment of the courts of the United States, and destroy the rights...laws by the instrumentality of its own tribunals. So fatal a result must be deprecated by all; and the people of Pennsylvania, no less than the citizens... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1838 - 850 pages
...the judgments of the courts of the United States, aud the rights thereby acquired, the constitution becomes a solemn mockery, and the nation is deprived of the means 6f enforcing its laws by its own tribunal. So fatal a result must be deprecated by all; and the people... | |
| John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...federal court in consequence of their obedience to the requisition of the said act. , If the legislatures of the several states may at will annul the judgments...of the courts of the United States, and destroy the right acquired under those judgments, the constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery, and the nation... | |
| William Alexander Duer - Constitutional law - 1843 - 436 pages
...the judgments of the courts of the United States, and the rights thereby acquired, the Constitution becomes a solemn mockery, and the nation is deprived of the means of enforcing its laws by its own tribunals : so fatal a result must be deprecated by all; and the people of every state must... | |
| Child rearing - 1845 - 436 pages
...the judgments of the courts of the United States, and the rights thereby acquired, the Constitution becomes a solemn mockery, and the nation is deprived of the means of enforcing its laws by its own tribunals : so fatal a result must be deprecated by all ; and the people of every state must... | |
| George Van Santvoord - Electronic books - 1854 - 550 pages
...United States, or destroy rights acquired under those judgments. " If it were otherwise," he remarks, " the Constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery;...laws, by the instrumentality of its own tribunals." The supremacy of the Federal Judiciary over the State tribunals in cases of constitutional construction,... | |
| Rollin Carlos Hurd - Extradition - 1858 - 714 pages
...Chief Justice Marshall, in delivering the opinion of the court, observed, that 'if the legislatures of the several states may, at will, annul the judgments...laws by the instrumentality of its own tribunals.' He further remarked, "if the ultimate right to determine the jurisdiction of the courts of the Union... | |
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