 | Allan Bowie Magruder - Biography & Autobiography - 1885 - 308 pages
...Constitution, and it "becomes necessary to inquire whether a jurisdiction so conferred / can be exercised. " The question whether an act repugnant to the Constitution...not of an intricacy proportioned to its interest. If an act of the legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void, does it, notwithstanding its invalidity,... | |
 | Allan Bowie Magruder - Biography & Autobiography - 1885 - 316 pages
...Constitution, and it becomes necessary to inquire whether a jurisdiction so conferred can be exercised. " The question whether an act repugnant to the Constitution...not of an intricacy proportioned to its interest. If an act of the legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void, does it, notwithstanding its invalidity,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 844 pages
...this, the case before the court was plain. Whether it could, said the court, in Marshall's words, " Whether an act repugnant to the Constitution can become...happily, not of an intricacy proportioned to its interest ;" and in these few words was the demonstration made : "It is a proposition too plain to be contested,... | |
 | Sir Fortunatus Dwarris - Constitutional law - 1885 - 698 pages
...changes,) and adopt them. c He says, " The question, whether an act repugnant to written constitutions can become the law of the land, is a question deeply interesting to the people of the United States ; but, happily, not of an intricacy proportioned to its interest. It seems... | |
 | John Winslow - Constitutional history - 1887 - 32 pages
...States. The Chief Justice, in delivering the opinion of the Court, said în his clear and incisive way; "The question whether an Act repugnant to the Constitution...interesting to the United States, but happily, not of intricacy proportioned to its interest. If an Act of the Legislature repugnant to the Constitution... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 942 pages
...constitution, and it becomes necessan 1 - to inquire whether a jurisdiction so conferred can be exercised. The question whether an act repugnant to the constitution...have been long and well established to decide it. That the people have an original right to establish, for their future government, such principles as... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional history - 1889 - 308 pages
...Chief-Justice,1 " whether an Act I ] repugnant to the Constitution can become the law of the land, i is a question deeply interesting to the United States...have been long and well established, to decide it. " That the people have an original right to establish, for their future government, such principles... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1890 - 868 pages
...language of Chief Justice Marshall is so clear and conclusive that I quote from it at some length : The question whether an act repugnant to the constitution...have been long and well established, to decide it. That the people have an original right to establish for their future government such principles as... | |
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The question whether an act repugnant to the Constitution can become the law of the land is a question deeply interesting to the United States; but, happily, not of an intricacy proportioned to its interest. It seems only necessary to recognize certain... 
