 | Frederick Dumont Smith - Constitutional history - 1926 - 598 pages
...described. It is impossible to abstract or digest Marshall's opinion on this point. I prefer to quote: "The question, whether an act, repugnant to the constitution,...deeply interesting to the United States; but, happily, 143 not of an intricacy proportioned to its interest. It seems only necessary to recognize certain... | |
 | John Stanislaus Zybura - Neo-Scholasticism - 1926 - 576 pages
...custom." '* When, in the famous decision in Marbury vs. Madison, Marshall approached the question as to whether an act repugnant to the Constitution can become the law of the land, we find him laying down this identical doctrine as basic to our whole structure of government. "That... | |
 | Law - 1915 - 532 pages
...follow the Constitution or an Act of Congress repugnant thereto. To quote from Marshall's opinion : "The question whether an act repugnant to the Constitution...question deeply interesting to the United States. * * * "That the people have an original right to establish for their future government such principles... | |
 | Bar Association of the State of Kansas - Bar associations - 1896 - 100 pages
...Marshall, that it has never since been questioned, and I cannot refrain from quoting what he says : "The question whether an act repugnant to the constitution...certain principles supposed to have been long and well estal>lished to decide it. ... The powers of the legislature are denned and limited; and that these... | |
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The question whether an Act repugnant to the Constitution can become the law of the land, is a question deeply interesting to the United States ; but, happily, not of an intricacy proportioned to its interest. It seems only necessary to recognize certain... 
