 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves ; that men, acting by virtue of powers, may do, not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. " If it be said, that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers,... | |
 | William Paley - Ethics - 1835 - 324 pages
...representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves ; that men, acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. The proper and peculiar province of the courts is the interpretation of the laws. A constitution is, in... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1837 - 516 pages
...representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves ; that men, acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers,... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves, that mere actions, by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. " If it be said that the legislative body are the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1850 - 688 pages
...385. In this State, ' as well as in all republics, it is not the Legislature, however transcendant its powers, who are supreme — but the people —...The law prescribes a new rule for new controversies, i but never interferes with the past or the present, because no ! rule of conduct can, with consistency,... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly. Senate - Ohio - 1849 - 492 pages
...representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves ; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. "Where the will of the Legislature declared in its statutes, stands in opposition to that of the people... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - Electronic books - 1852 - 444 pages
...representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves ; that men acting by virtue of power may do, not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid." Their oaths of office, too. prohibit, and the constitution itself, in express terms, prohibits, the... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - Law - 1852 - 446 pages
...representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves ; that men acting by virtue of power may do, not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid." Their oaths of office, too. prohibit, and the constitution itself, in express terms, prohibits, the... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1852 - 528 pages
...representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves ; that men, acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers,... | |
 | Dennis A. Mahony - United States - 1863 - 434 pages
...the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of power may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid." The very thing the President of the United States has been doing since he became invested with the Executive... | |
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... Legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal ; that the servant is above his master ; that the Representatives of the People are superior to... 
