 The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to...  The American and English Encyclopedia of Law - Page 261edited by - 1890Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Law reports, digests, etc - 1804 - 512 pages
...aft. s V Between thefe alternatives there is no middle ground. The conftitution is either a fuperior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legiflative afts, and like other afts, is alterable when the legiilature fhall pleafe to alter it.... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 802 pages
...on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited, and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the...either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by irresistible triumph.1 To the people at large, therefore, such an institution, is peculiarly valuable... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 684 pages
...on whom they are imposed, and if Acts prohibited, and Jlcfs allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the...legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary Act. " This original and supreme will organizes the government, and assigns to different departments their... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. \tt is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the...legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. 3 .Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution is either a superior, paramount... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the...ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legistive acts, and like other acts, it is alterable, when the legislature shall please to alter it.... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - Judges - 1854 - 550 pages
...unlimited powers is abolished, if these limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the Constitution controls any legis lative act repugnant to it, or, that the Legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 712 pages
...persons on whom they are imposed and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested that the constitution...legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act." It will be noted that section 1 of the statute under consideration makes it unlawful to erect a structure... | |
 | John Fulton - Constitutional history - 1864 - 582 pages
...persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the...controls any legislative act repugnant to it ; or, the legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary act. " Between these alternatives there is... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 532 pages
...persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested that the Constitution controls any legislati ve act repugnant to it, or that the legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Alexander James Dallas, William Cranch, United States. Supreme Court, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 708 pages
...* 177 ] they are imposed, and if acts prohibited * and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the...legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Marbury v. Madison. 1 C. stitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means,... | |
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