 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 страници
...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...either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by irresistible triumph.1 To the people at large, therefore, such an institution, is peculiarly valuable... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1827 - 686 страници
...not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if Acts prohibited, and Jlcfs allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to...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 страници
...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 - 550 страници
...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 - 1911 - 712 страници
...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...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 страници
...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...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 страници
...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 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 страници
...confine the persons on whom [ * 177 ] they are imposed, and if acts prohibited * and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to...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 страници
...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 страници
...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...legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. * * * "Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental... | |
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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... 
