 | Iowa - 1903 - 606 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 power may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. * * * It can be of... | |
 | 1923 - 510 pages
...Federalist: "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; that the servant is above the master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men... | |
 | James Allen Smith - Democracy - 1907 - 432 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;...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... | |
 | Charles Grove Haines - Courts - 1909 - 194 pages
...Constitution, can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principle ; that the servant is above his master ; that the representatives...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... | |
 | Percy Lewis Kaye - United States - 1910 - 594 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... | |
 | James Wilford Garner - Political science - 1910 - 642 pages
...the constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than the principal; that the servant is above his master; that...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... | |
 | John Hampden Dougherty - Courts - 1912 - 154 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. It can be of no weight... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard - Constitutional history - 1912 - 158 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... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard - United States - 1912 - 144 pages
...Constitution, can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm 24 THE SUPREME COURT AND THE CONSTITUTION that the deputy is greater than his principal; that...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1913 - 250 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... | |
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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.... 
