 | Simon Sterne - Constitutional history - 1888 - 402 pages
...void. No 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...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... | |
 | Judson Stuart Landon - Constitutional history - 1889 - 796 pages
...void. No 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...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... | |
 | James Bradley Thayer - Constitutional law - 1894 - 470 pages
...void. No 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...the people themselves ; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not anthorize, but what thev forbid. If it be said that... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison - United States - 1894 - 980 pages
...void. No Legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this would l>e to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal;...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... | |
 | Indiana State Bar Association (1916- ) - Bar associations - 1899 - 272 pages
...void. Xo 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...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 may be suggested... | |
 | Michel Mathieu - Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 600 pages
...void. No 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;...the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do, not only what their powers authorize, but what they forbid." In the case of Marbury... | |
 | Bar Association of the State of New Hampshire - Bar associations - 1903 - 1012 pages
...constitution emanated from the people, and not from the court. Their claim, reduced into plain English, is, " that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves." Chief Justice Lawrence of Illinois rightly said: "Whatever respect may be due to the legislature, that... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 484 pages
...void. No 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1901 - 536 pages
...legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution can be * Idem, p. 181. valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principal...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... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1901 - 520 pages
...act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution can be •Idem, p. 181. 43<> valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principal...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... | |
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There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution can be valid.... 
