 | John Dickinson - United States - 1801 - 450 pages
...fundamental laws are established. The constitution is certain and fixed ; it contains the permanent will of the people, and is the supreme law of the land ; it is paramount to the power of the legislature, and can be revoked or altered only by the authority that made it. What are... | |
 | John Dickinson - Pennsylvania - 1801 - 650 pages
...the permanent will of the people, and is the supreme law of the land ; it is paramount to the power of the legislature, and can be revoked or altered only by the authority that made it.——What are legislatures ? Creatures of the censtitution, they owe their... | |
 | George Watterston - Statesmen - 1818 - 158 pages
...fundamental laws are established. — The constitution is certain anil fixed ; it contains the permanent will of the people, and is the supreme law of the land."— It is the work or will of the people themselves, in their original, sovereign and unlimited capacity. necessary... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...fundamental law are established. The Constitution is permanent and fixed i it contains the permanent will of the people, and is the supreme law of the land ; it is paramount to the power of the legislature, and can be revoked or altered only by the power that made it. The life-giving... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, George Noble Stewart - Law reports, digests, etc - 1835 - 526 pages
...fundamental law are established. The constitution is certain and fixed; it contains the permanent will of the people, and is the supreme law of the land;...legislature, and can be revoked or altered only by the authority that made it" Again, "I take it to be a clear position, that if a legislative act oppugns... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - New York (State) - 1831 - 758 pages
...fundamental law are established. The constitution is certain and fixed ; it contains the permanent will of the people, and is the supreme law of the land ; it is paramount to the power of the Legislature, and can be revoked or altered only by the power that made it. The life-giving... | |
 | Samuel Miller, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - Church polity - 1839 - 606 pages
...fundamental laws are established. The Constitution is certain and fixed; it contains the permanent will of the people, and is the supreme law of the land ; it is paramount to the power of the Legislature, and can be revoked or altered only by the authority that made it. The life-giving... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - Natural law - 1844 - 372 pages
...authorities must bow, and which the people only can alter or repeal ; "for it is paramount to the power of the legislature, and can be revoked or altered, only by the authority that made it. The life giving principle, and the death doing stroke must proceed from the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Hallett - Constitutional history - 1848 - 84 pages
...fundamental laws are established. The constitution is certain and fixed ; it contains the permanent will of the people, and is the supreme law of the land ; it is paramount to the power of the Legislature, and can be revoked or altered only by the authority that made it. The life-giving... | |
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What is a Constitution? It is the form of government, delineated by the mighty hand of the people, in which certain first principles of fundamental laws are established. The Constitution is certain and fixed; it contains the permanent will of the people,... 
