 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1812 - 486 pàgines
...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...legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution is either a superior paramount... | |
 | William Wirt - 1826 - 690 pàgines
...abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohihited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a...legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. ' Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution is either a superior, paramount... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1827 - 674 pàgines
...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...legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary Act. "Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The Constitution is either a superior, paramount... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 538 pàgines
...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. If the constitution does not control any legislative act repugnant to it, then the legislature may... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 532 pàgines
...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. If the constitution does not control any legislative act repugnant to it, then the legislature may... | |
 | William Sullivan - 1830 - 72 pàgines
...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...legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. ' Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution is either a superior, paramount... | |
 | James Kent - 1832 - 590 pàgines
...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. If the constitution does not conlrol any legislative act repugnant to it, then the legislature may... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 pàgines
...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...legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution is either a superior, paramount... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1827 - 686 pàgines
...those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if Acts prohibited, and Jlcfs allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition...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 pàgines
...with limited and ur 'imited 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. \tt is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act... | |
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... are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished, if... 
