 | Frederick Newton Judson - Courts - 1913 - 288 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, that the servant is greater than his master. And he combats in the strongest terms the contention that the members of a... | |
 | William Bennett Bizzell - Courts - 1914 - 292 pages
...Edition). lative 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... | |
 | United States - 1915 - 558 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... | |
 | William Dameron Guthrie - Fiction - 1916 - 296 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1917 - 612 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... | |
 | American Academy of Political and Social Science - Courts - 1917 - 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. pose of an independent... | |
 | Political science - 1917 - 272 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 Bingley Stuart - Constitutional law - 1917 - 18 pages
...commission is void. No legislative act contrary to the Constitution is valid. To deny this would bo to ailim that the deputy is greater than his principal. That...master. That the representatives of the people are greater than the people. The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the... | |
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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.... 
