 | John Lord - History - 1883 - 402 pages
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 | Indiana State Bar Association (1916- ) - Bar associations - 1911 - 386 pages
...apply. Those, then, who controvert the principle that the Constitution is to be considered in court as a paramount law are reduced to the necessity of...the Constitution and see only the law. This doctrine wouJd subvert the very foundation of all written Constitutions. It would declare that an act which,... | |
 | Washington State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1911 - 1472 pages
...This is of the very essence of judicial duty.' And —11— the Chief Justice added that the doctrine 'that courts must close their eyes on the Constitution, and see only the law' 'would subvert the very foundation of all written constitutions.' Necessarily the power to declare... | |
 | Hampton Lawrence Carson - 1911 - 22 pages
...apply. Those, then, who controvert the principle that the Constitution is to be considered in court as a paramount law, are reduced to the necessity of...their eyes on the Constitution and see only the law." To characterize such reasoning as sophistry is childish. A school-boy might as well challenge a proposition... | |
 | Michigan. Attorney General's Office, Michigan. Department of Attorney General - 1913 - 724 pages
...apply. Those, then, who controvert the principle that the Constitution is to be considered, in court, as a paramount law, are reduced to the necessity of...void, is yet, in practice, completely obligatory. Jt would declare that if the legislature shall do what is expressly forbidden, such act, notwithstanding... | |
 | Edith M. Phelps - Courts - 1913 - 286 pages
...apply. Those, then, who controvert the principle that the Constitution is to be considered in court as a paramount law are reduced to the necessity of...doctrine would subvert the very foundation of all written constituti9ns. It would declare that an act which, according to the principles and theory of our Government,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1913 - 250 pages
...* * Those, then, who controvert the principle that the Constitution is to be considered, in Court, as a paramount law, are reduced to the necessity of...Constitution, and see only the law. This doctrine ivould subvert the very foundation of all written Constitutions. It would declare that an act which,... | |
 | Wallace Hugh Whigam - Commercial law - 1913 - 448 pages
...governs the case. This is the very essence of the judicial duty. The courts cannot close their eyes to the Constitution and see only the law. This doctrine...foundation of all written constitutions. It would be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence with the same breath which professes... | |
 | William Bennett Bizzell - Courts - 1914 - 292 pages
...void. Those, then, who controvert the principle that the Constitution is to be considered, in Court, as a paramount law, are reduced to the necessity of...their eyes on the Constitution, and see only the law. "No person," says the Constitution, "shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses... | |
 | Thomas Johnson Michie - Criminal law - 1914 - 816 pages
...an act of the legislature, the courts must decide between these conflicting rules; and how can they close their eyes on the constitution and see only the law? This great question may be regarded as now finally settled, and I consider it to be one of the most interesting... | |
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Those, then, who controvert the principle that the constitution is to be considered, in court as a paramount law, are reduced to the necessity of maintaining that courts must close their eyes on the constitution and see only the law. 
