 | Edward Samuel Corwin - Constitutional history - 1919 - 268 pages
...obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested: that the Constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary act. / [If, then,] an act of the legislature, repugnant to the / Constitution, is void, does it, notwithstanding... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - Judges - 1919 - 730 pages
...clear to admit of discussion, but he proceeded, nevertheless, to discuss the subject at great length. There is "no middle ground." The Constitution is either "a superior paramount law" not to be changed by legislative enactment, or else "it is on a level with the ordinary legislative... | |
 | North American review - 1920 - 876 pages
...instrument that exists today. In these words he fixed the stability of that instrument for all time : The Constitution is either a superior paramount law,...like other acts, is alterable when the legislature is pleased to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary... | |
 | Everett Kimball - Political Science - 1920 - 656 pages
...Constitu- Constitution tion is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary 8Upreme or means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and like other on a level . " . with acts of acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. ...... | |
 | United States - 1921 - 612 pages
...obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested : that the Constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary act. [If, then,] an act of the legislature, repugnant to the Constitution, is void, does it, notwithstanding... | |
 | Constantine Edward McGuire - Catholics - 1923 - 446 pages
...questions would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy." Marshall answered this by saying that "the Constitution is either a superior paramount law,...ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary acts alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. It is emphatically the province and duty... | |
 | North American review - 1924 - 924 pages
...quoting Chief Justice Marshall in the celebrated case of Marbury vs. Madison, 1 Crunch 187, as follows: The Constitution is either a superior paramount law,...If the former part of the alternative be true, then the legislative act contrary to the Constitution is no law. If the latter part be true, then written... | |
 | Harold Edgar Barnes, B. A. Milner - Constitutional law - 1924 - 440 pages
...obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the Constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or that the legislature may alter...is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordiIf the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the Constitution... | |
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Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. 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... 
