 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1883 - 572 pages
...assemblies." Mr. Jefferson said that his construction was, "that each department of the government is truly independent of the others, and has an equal right...itself what is the meaning of the Constitution in the laws submitted to its action ;" and he referred to the "Alien and Sedition Laws " and Marbury vs. Madison,... | |
 | Kansas. Legislature. House of Representatives - 1893 - 1096 pages
...Jefferson is quoted as saying: "My construction is, that each department of the government is truly independent of the others, and has an equal right...itself what is the meaning of the constitution' in the laws submitted to its action, and especially when it is to act ultimately and without appeal." President... | |
 | Social sciences - 1896 - 522 pages
...language which the occasion did not require. He said, " Each department of the government is truly independent of the others, and has an equal right...itself what is the meaning of the constitution in the laws submitted to its action, and especially when it is to act ultimately and without appeal." 1 This... | |
 | Pennsylvania Bar Association - Bar associations - 1905 - 480 pages
...doctrine of the departments: "My construction of the Constitution is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has an equal right...Constitution in the cases submitted to its action. * * * Each of the three departments has equally the right to decide for itself what is its duty under... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration - Budget - 1985 - 236 pages
...by another branch. 34 Writing to Judge Spencer Roane, Jefferson stated that each branch was "truly independent of the others, and has an equal right...where it is to act ultimately and without appeal." 35 Jefferson's theory could produce as many meanings of the Constitution as there are branches of government,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration - Budget - 1985 - 242 pages
...considerations by another branch.34 Writing to Judge Spencer Roane, Jefferson stated that each branch was "truly independent of the others, and has an equal right...especially, where it is to act ultimately and without appeal."35 Jefferson's theory could produce as many meanings of the Constitution as there are branches... | |
 | Christian Lerat - Courts - 1989 - 340 pages
...insisted that each of the three branches, being independent, «has an equal right to decide for itself the meaning of the Constitution in the cases submitted to its action ; where it is to act ultimately without appeal ; [and that] the court is neither more learned nor more... | |
 | Harvey Flaumenhaft - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 340 pages
...are inherently independent of all but moral law." Hence, said Jefferson, "each department is truly independent of the others, and has an equal right...where it is to act ultimately and without appeal." Otherwise, the Constitution "is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist... | |
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My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has an equal right to decide for itself what is the meaning of the constitution in the cases submitted to its... 
