 | Charles William Bacon, Franklyn Stanley Morse - Common law - 1924 - 424 pages
...the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of power may do, not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid." Their oaths of office too, prohibit, and the constitution itself, in express terms, prohibits the legislative... | |
 | Law - 1917 - 516 pages
...representatives of the people are superior to the peopje themselves ; that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. "A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the judges, as a fundamental law. It, therefore,... | |
 | Gaspar Griswold Bacon - Law - 1928 - 232 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." As judicial precedents for the exercise of this power, the framers had before them the decisions and... | |
 | Robert Livingston Schuyler - Constitutional history - 1928 - 234 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,... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1924 - 298 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 Constitution ought to be preferred to the statute, the intention of the people to the intention of... | |
 | Oklahoma State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1922 - 262 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,... | |
 | Labor - 1924 - 358 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 Constitution is the wül of the people, expressed deliberately and solemnly. To put this proposition... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Appellate procedure - 1957 - 1146 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." Hamilton goes on to state his premise that it is not to be supposed "that the Constitution could intend... | |
 | 1923 - 1628 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." In this country, where the law is supreme, those acting in a representative capacity may not substitute... | |
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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... 
