 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - America - 1888 - 834 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." In private Chief-Justice Marshall was a man of unassuming piety and amiability of temper. He was tall,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 942 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... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional history - 1889 - 308 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. . . . " If an Act of the legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void, does it, notwithstanding... | |
 | Law - 1903 - 658 pages
...true, then a legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law; if the latter part be true, then written Constitutions are abs'urd attempts, on the...people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. ... If an act of the Legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void, does it, notwithstanding its... | |
 | Hawaii. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 844 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." The Act in question is, in my opinion, absolutely void. CW Ashford (Attorney-General), for the Crown.... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1890 - 868 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. . . . If an act of the legislature repugnant to the constitution is void, does it, notwithstanding... | |
 | Hampton Lawrence Carson - Judges - 1892 - 472 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. ... If an act of the Legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void, does it, notwithstanding its... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1893 - 756 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." There is of course this enormoui difference between Congress and any subordinate law-makirs authority... | |
 | James Bradley Thayer - Constitutional law - 1894 - 470 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 n power in its own nature illimitable. Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate... | |
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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. 
