...be made inconfiftent with thofe powers by this inftrument in congrefs, the judges, as a confequence of their independence, and the particular powers of government being defined, will declare fuch law to be null ant! void. For the power of the conftitution predominates. Any thing therefore,...

...to the judges, are dangerous ; 396 for my part, Mr. president, I think the contrary inference true. If a law should be made inconsistent with those powers...void. For the power of the constitution predominates. Any thing therefore, that shall be enacted by Congress contrary thereto, will not have the force of...

...given to the judges are dangerous. For my part, Mr. President, I think the contrary inference true. If a law should be made inconsistent with those powers...of their independence, and the particular powers of govern ment being defined, will declare such law to be null and void ; for the power of the Constitution...

...given to the judges are dangerous. For my part, Mr. President, I think the contrary inference true. If a law should be made inconsistent with those powers...vested by this instrument in Congress, the judges, as a consequencei of their independence, and the particular powers of govern ment being defined, will declare...

...this power. Nothing could be clearer than the language of Wilson in the Pennsylvania Convention: " If a law should be made inconsistent with those powers...Congress contrary thereto will not have the force of law." (Elliott's Debates, Vol. Ill, p. 548.) If, however, we do not agree that the court is the proper...

...given to the judges are dangerous; for my part, Mr. President. I think the contrary inference true. If a law should be made inconsistent with those powers...void. For the power of the constitution predominates. Any thing therefore, that shall be enacted by Congress contrary thereto, will not have the force of...

...Federal judiciary." 4 Elliot's Debates, 150, 157. In the convention of Pennsylvania, James Wilson said: "If a law should be made inconsistent with those powers...Congress contrary thereto, will not have the force of law." 2 Elliot's Debates, 489. In the Virginia convention Edmund Randolph said that, if Congress wished...

...Federal judiciary was both lucid in present explanation and prophetic of the future work of the courts. "If a law should be made, inconsistent with those...judges as a consequence of their independence, and of the particular powers of government being defined, will declare such law to be null and void, for...

...which the court held under advisement until Congress had modified the objectionable features of the 4 JB Thayer, Cases on Constitutional Law, I. 105 n....Congress contrary thereto, will not have the force of law." lo It is not surprising then to find Iredell, who was on circuit with Wilson in the fall of 1792,...

...Constitutional Convention and afterwards became a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, said, "If a law should be made inconsistent with those powers...independence and the particular powers of government being denned, will declare such law to be null and void. For the power of the Constitution predominates....