...contrary to the Constitution is not law. If the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts on the part of the people to limit a power in its own nature illimitable . . . If an act of the legislature, repugnant to the Constitution, is void, does it, notwithstanding...

...contrary to the constitution is not law; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. Again, others would not directly abolish the Constitution, but would have the courts ignore it, or...

...alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. ... Certain!) all those who have I rained written constitutions contemplate them as forming...the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequent!), the theor) of ever) such government must be. that an act of the legislature, repugnant...

...contrary to the constitution is not law: if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power, in its own nature illimitable. ii/ These bills would violate separation of power principles not only by encroaching upon the constitutional...

...answer) (frame a hypothesis) <picture him excuses framing — going from her far away — Gilbert) <all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate...forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation — John Marshall) (it is in order to overcome these obstacles that the notes and questions in this...

...Constitution is not law and need not be given effect in court; else "written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable." If two laws conflict, a court must obey the superior one. But Marshall knew ( and, indeed, it was true...

...legislature," though legislative power is vested only in those qualified and elected. "5 US (1 Cranch) at 177 ("Certainly, all those who have framed written constitutions...forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation . . . ."). 52U.S. CONST, art. VI, para. 2. "Cooper v. Telfair, 4 US (4 Dall.) 14, 18 (1800) (separate...

...contrary to the constitution is not law: if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power,...Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions 7 Marbury v. Madison, 5 US (1 Cranch) 137 (1803). 8 See HANS KELSEN, PURE THEORY OF LAW (1934). contemplate...

...contrary to the constitution is not law: if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power, in its own nature, illimitable.5 I am personally satisfied that Marshall's argument is a sound one. But notice that it...

...later ages would apply to their own, altered circumstances. . . . Unless one accepts the idea that "those who have framed written constitutions contemplate...fundamental and paramount law of the nation" . . . and also accepts the abiding vitality of the great principles of republicanism, liberty, the public good,...