 | Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison - History - 2006 - 657 pages
...representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, ma/ do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers,... | |
 | Clint Bolick - Law - 2007 - 208 pages
...representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. . . . Nor does this conclusion by any means suppose a superiority of the judicial to the legislative... | |
 | Vincent Ostrom - Political Science - 2008 - 320 pages
...representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. (Federalist 78, par. 10) Hamilton specifically rejects the contention that legislative bodies are competent... | |
 | Michael Warren - History - 2007 - 235 pages
...representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.190 A critical issue facing the Founders was how to address unconstitutional laws or illegal... | |
 | 420 pages
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 | 1910 - 734 pages
...representatives of the People are superior to the People themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers may do, not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid." The compact with the States, and also with the People, made by the Convention, was for "navigation laws,"... | |
 | Literature - 1899 - 550 pages
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 | 623 pages
...representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. ...It is far more rational to suppose that the courts were designed to be an intermediate body between... | |
 | Law reviews - 1987 - 766 pages
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... Legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal ; that the servant is above his master ; that the Representatives of the People are superior to... 
