 | William Maxwell Evarts - Forensic oratory - 1919 - 802 pages
...from the legislative body. If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred; or, in other words, the Constitution ought to be preferred to the statute, the intention of the people... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard - United States - 1920 - 810 pages
...from the. legislative body. If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity...intention of the people to the intention of their agents."1 At all events, whatever may have been the intention of the framers, Chief Justice Marshall,... | |
 | Thomas James Norton - Constitutional history - 1922 - 334 pages
...the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred ; or, in other words, the Constitution ought to be preferred...intention of the people to the intention of their agents." HAMILTON, in the "Federalist", No. LXXVm. ARTICLE m Section 1. The judicial Power of the United States,... | |
 | Thomas James Norton - Constitutional history - 1922 - 308 pages
...the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred ; or, in other words, the Constitution ought to be preferred...intention of the people to the intention of their agents." HAMILTON, in the "Federalist", No. ARTICLE m Section 1. The judicial Power of the United States, shall... | |
 | Thomas James Norton - Constitutional history - 1922 - 332 pages
...from the legislative body. If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred ; or, in other words, the Constitution ought to be preferred to the statute, the intention of the people... | |
 | Thomas James Norton - Constitutional history - 1922 - 350 pages
...from the legislative body. If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred ; or, in other words, the Constitution ought to be preferred to the statute, the intention of the people... | |
 | Thomas James Norton - Constitutional history - 1922 - 332 pages
...from the legislative body. If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred ; or, in other words, the Constitution ought to be preferred to the statute, the intention of the people... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard - Political science - 1924 - 832 pages
...two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of 1 The Independent, Sept. 26. 1907. course, to be preferred ; in other words, the Constitution...intention of the people to the intention of their agents." * Whatever may have been the intention of the framers, Chief Justice Marshall, in the famous case of... | |
 | Charles William Bacon, Franklyn Stanley Morse - Common law - 1924 - 424 pages
...then there should happen to be an irreconcileable variance between the constitution and a statute, that which has the superior obligation and validity...ought of course to be preferred"; in other words, "the intention of the people ought to be preferred to the intention of their agents." "Nor does this conclusion... | |
 | Lawrence Boyd Evans - Constitutional law - 1925 - 1436 pages
...from the legislative body. If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity...words, the Constitution ought to be preferred to the statutes, the intention of the people to the intention of their agents. It la sometimes said that the... | |
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A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the judges, as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body. If there should happen to be... 
