 | Robert Walsh - 1827 - 686 páginas
...persons 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...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 - 1839 - 762 páginas
...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... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - 1854 - 554 páginas
...the interpreters of the Constitution.* " The powers of the Legislature," says the Chief-Justice, " are defined and limited. To what purpose are powers...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 - 1911 - 712 páginas
...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 be contested that...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 - 1864 - 582 páginas
...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...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 - 1868 - 532 páginas
...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 - 1870 - 708 páginas
...whom [ * 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...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,... | |
 | 1872 - 522 páginas
...ed., vol. 1, pp. 541, 542. acts acts allowed are of equal prohibition. It is a proposition too plaiii to be contested, that the Constitution controls any...repugnant to it ; or that the legislature may alter the Constition by an ordinary act. " Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The Constitution... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1921 - 706 páginas
...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...legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. * * * "Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1913 - 674 páginas
...limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the constitution is written. * * * It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that...constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it." There can be no honest controversy but that the written constitution of the state is the paramount... | |
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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 be... 
