 | Francis Canavan - 1995 - 192 หน้า
...to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional to be implicit in the nature of a written constitution: The constitution is either a superior paramount law,...is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative is true, then a legislative act, contrary to the constitution... | |
 | Jean Edward Smith - 1998 - 788 หน้า
...any legislative act repugnant to it." Otherwise, the legislature may alter the Constitution at will. "Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it." Marshall said it was absolutely clear that all of those who had framed written constitutions... | |
 | Bardo Fassbender - 1998 - 444 หน้า
...1803. The reader will recall Chief Justice John Marshall's famous statement in Marbury v. Madison: The constitution is either a superior, paramount law,...is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the constitution... | |
 | William Bondy - 1998 - 186 หน้า
...committed to writing, if those limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained ?• "The constitution is either a superior paramount law,...on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and like any other act is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. " If the former part of the... | |
 | Andr s Saj¢ - 1999 - 312 หน้า
...then government's restriction comes to an end. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the Constitution controls any legislative act repugnant...is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. " Representative William Plumer, congressman from New Hampshire, in Smith, 319. Soon after,... | |
 | Elliot E. Slotnick - 1999 - 666 หน้า
...be developed, this becomes a crucial point in the American genesis of judicial review. Between the alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution...is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act, contrary to the Constitution,... | |
 | Matthias Jestaedt - 1999 - 456 หน้า
...Begründung des Vorrangs der Verfassung durch den Supreme Court im Jahre 1803 zeigt das Dilemma auf: »The constitution is either a superior paramount...is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former pari of the alternative be true, then a legislature act contrary to the constitution... | |
 | Robert M. Hayden - 2000 - 234 หน้า
...the supposed constitution, rendering it a logical nullity. As Chief Justice Marshall said in Marbury, "The constitution is either a superior, paramount...acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please 10 alter it. ... if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts ... to... | |
 | Richard M Battistoni - 2000 - 198 หน้า
...prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested that the Constitution controls any legislative act repugnant...is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the Constitution... | |
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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. 
