 Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the Legislature, repugnant to the Constitution,...  Current Comment and Legal Miscellany - Page 3991889Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Court rules - 1812 - 486 pages
...fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and, consequently, the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. court, as one of the fundamental principles of our socicty. It is not therefore to be lost sight of... | |
 | William Wirt - Funeral sermons - 1826 - 690 pages
...the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. 'It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 538 pages
...legislative act repugnant to it, then the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. The theory of every government, with a written constitution,...legislature repugnant to the constitution is void. If void, it cannot bind the courts, and oblige them to give it effect ; for this would be to overthrow,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 532 pages
...legislative act repugnant to it, then the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. The theory of every government, with a written constitution,...legislature repugnant to the constitution is void. If void, it cannot bind the courts, and oblige them to give it effect ; for this would be to overthrow,... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an Act of the legislature, repugnant to the Constitution, is void. " This theory is essentially attached to written Constitutions, and is consequently to be considered,... | |
 | William Sullivan - New England - 1830 - 72 pages
...the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. 'It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1832 - 590 pages
...legislative act repugnant to it, then the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. The theory of every government, with a written constitution,...legislature repugnant to the constitution is void. If void, it cannot bind the courts, and oblige them to give it eflect ; for this would be to overthrow,... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. This theory is essentially attached to a written constitution, and is consequently to be considered... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be that an act of the legislature repugnant to the constitution is void. " This theory is essentially attached to a written constitution, and is consequently to be considered... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1851 - 706 pages
...legislative act repugnant to it, then the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. The theory of every government, with a written constitution,...legislature repugnant to the constitution is void. If void, it cannot bind the courts, and oblige them to give it effect ; for this would 1)0 to overthrow... | |
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