 | 1923 - 510 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 interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in... | |
 | James Allen Smith - Constitutional law - 1907 - 474 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. "If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers,... | |
 | Charles Grove Haines - Courts - 1909 - 194 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.1 To the argument that the legislature must be the constitutional judge of its own powers and... | |
 | Percy Lewis Kaye - United States - 1910 - 560 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. If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers,... | |
 | James Wilford Garner - Political science - 1910 - 630 pages
...representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves ; that mere men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid." ! He pointed out that it could not have been presumed that the constitution which specified the powers... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard - Constitutional history - 1912 - 158 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. If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers,... | |
 | John Hampden Dougherty - Courts - 1912 - 154 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 can be of no weight to say, that the courts, on the pretence of a repugnancy, may substitute their... | |
 | Great Britain - 1913 - 250 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 interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the Courts. A Constitution is, in... | |
 | William Bennett Bizzell - Courts - 1914 - 292 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 interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A Constitution is, in... | |
 | United States - 1915 - 558 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 interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in... | |
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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... 
