 | Rome Green Brown - 1917 - 1002 דפים
...legislative act repugnant to it, or that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary 10 the constitution is not law; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts,... | |
 | Harvard University. Department of Government - 1917 - 166 דפים
...unconstitutional. But that authority, Marshall argued, was derivable from the very nature of the Constitution. " The Constitution is either a superior paramount law,...ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary acts." To maintain the latter alternative would be to deny the supremacy which the Constitution in... | |
 | Rome Green Brown - 1917 - 890 דפים
...the legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary act. Beti a supc THE JUDICIAL RECALL. 17 ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall pleaae to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary... | |
 | Jackson Harvey Ralston - 1919 - 94 דפים
...legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. ... Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
 | William Montgomery Meigs - 1919 - 300 דפים
...legislative act repugnant to it ; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the leg1slature shall please to alter it. the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd... | |
 | Charles W. Wallis - 1919 - 96 דפים
...Constitution can become the law of the land, is a question deeply interesting to the United States. The Constitution is either a superior paramount law,...a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like any other acts, is alterable whenever the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former alternative... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 1919 - 730 דפים
...clear to admit of discussion, but he proceeded, nevertheless, to discuss the subject at great length. There is "no middle ground." The Constitution is either "a superior paramount law" not to be changed by legislative enactment, or else "it is on a level with the ordinary legislative... | |
 | Oberlin Historical and Improvement Organization, Ohio - 1920 - 664 דפים
...aid is desired. As said by Chief Justice Marshall, in Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch, 137, at page 177: "The constitution is either a superior paramount law,...legislative act contrary to the constitution is not low ; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on part of the people,... | |
 | 1920 - 876 דפים
...instrument that exists today. In these words he fixed the stability of that instrument for all time : The Constitution is either a superior paramount law,...like other acts, is alterable when the legislature is pleased to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary... | |
 | Everett Kimball - 1920 - 656 דפים
...Constitu- Constitution tion is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary 8Upreme or means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and like other on a level . " . with acts of acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. ...... | |
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The Constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative Acts, and, like other Acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. 
