 | United States Commission on Civil Rights - Education - 1959 - 928 pages
...undertaking to support It. Chief Justice John Marshall made this clear when he said, "If the legislators of the several States may, at will, annul the Judgments...the Constitution Itself becomes a solemn mockery." The citizens of Louisiana are looking to you and your fellow legislators to preserve that Constitution... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1965 - 182 pages
...violating his undertaking to support it. Chief Justice Marshall spoke for a unanimous Court in saying that: "If the legislatures of the several states may, at...judgments, the constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery . . . ." United States v. Peters, 5 Cranch 115,136. A Governor who asserts a power to nullify a federal... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - School integration - 1965 - 182 pages
...violating his undertaking to support it. Chief Justice Marshall spoke for a unanimous Court in saying that: "If the legislatures of the several states may, at...judgments, the constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery . . . ." United States v. Peters, 5 Cranch 115, 136. A Governor who asserts a power to nullify a federal... | |
 | Michael Burns - Technology & Engineering - 1987 - 340 pages
...** The Supreme Court noted in that context that if the "states may, at will, annul the judgment of the courts of the United States, and destroy the rights...judgments, the Constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery."99 Congress may also enforce compact obligations through its legislative power.100 The Status... | |
 | Jean Edward Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 788 pages
...decision remarkable for its directness, Marshall, speaking once more for a unanimous Court, said that "if the legislatures of the several states may at...judgments, the Constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery."67 The chief justice chose his words with exactitude, aiming at separatist sentiment in New... | |
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If the legislatures of the several states may, at will, annul the judgments of the courts of the United States, and destroy the rights acquired under those judgments, the constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery . . . . 
