 | Electronic journals - 1895 - 856 pages
...true, then a legislative uct 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 a legislature, repugnant to the Constitution, is void, does it, notwithstanding... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1916 - 412 pages
...act contrary to the Constitution is not law;' if the latter part be true, then written constitut1ons are absurd 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... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denny, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1909 - 494 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. This theory is essentially attached to a written Constitution, and is consequently to be considered... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1913 - 318 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 a legislature, repugnant to the Constitution, is void, does it, notwithstanding its... | |
 | Michel Mathieu - Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 600 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... | |
 | Lawrence Boyd Evans - Constitutional law - 1898 - 702 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1900 - 778 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 its... | |
 | Emlin McClain - Constitutional law - 1900 - 1126 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... | |
 | John Allen Shauck - John Marshall Day - 1901 - 26 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... | |
 | Bar Association of St. Louis - Judges - 1901 - 110 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. "It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those... | |
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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. 
