 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1973 - 362 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,... | |
 | David F. Epstein - Political Science - 2008 - 245 pages
...legislative servants above their master, the people, which is to say that "men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid" (78, p. 467). Thus Hamilton unnecessarily suggests the possibility of men doing "what their .[44]powers... | |
 | Hays - Law - 1992 - 552 pages
...representatives of the people are superior to the peop1e 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... | |
 | George Wescott Carey - History - 1994 - 220 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" (467). Having asserted the fundamental law status of the Constitution, Publius then turns to examine... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - History - 1998 - 220 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,... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall - Law - 2000 - 506 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.'" In dealing with the contentious second question of the period 1 debate — whether judges could refuse... | |
 | Richard M Battistoni - Law - 2000 - 198 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,... | |
 | Catharine Cookson - Religion - 2001 - 288 pages
...representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by \irtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. . . . [T]he courts were designed to be an intermediate bod\ between the people and the legislature in order, among... | |
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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... 
