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 please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative... The American Political Science Review - Page 227edited by - 1908Full view - About this book
| United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Law reports, digests, etc - 1804 - 514 pages
...aft. s V Between thefe alternatives there is no middle ground. The conftitution is either a fuperior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legiflative afts, and like other afts, is alterable when the legiilature fhall pleafe to alter it.... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Court rules - 1812 - 486 pages
...may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution is either a superior paramount law,...with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be... | |
| William Wirt - Funeral sermons - 1826 - 690 pages
...alter the constitution by an ordinary act. ' Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution is either a superior, paramount law,...with ordinary legislative acts, and like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. ' If the former part of the alternative... | |
| Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...may alter the Constitution by an ordinary Act. "Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The Constitution is either a superior, paramount law,...with ordinary legislative Acts, and, like other Acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. " If the former part of the alternative... | |
| William Sullivan - New England - 1830 - 72 pages
...alter the constitution by an ordinary act. ' Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution is either a superior, paramount law,...with ordinary legislative acts, and like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. ' If the former part of the alternative... | |
| John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...alter the constitution by an ordinary act. 3 .Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution is either a superior, paramount law,...with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be... | |
| E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution is either a superior paramount law,...with ordinary legislative acts, and like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall choose to alter it.(a) ยง 402. " In the United States, the... | |
| James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...alter the constitution by an ordinary act. " Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution is either a superior paramount law,...ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legistive acts, and like other acts, it is alterable, when the legislature shall please to alter it.... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1851 - 642 pages
...may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution is either a superior, paramount law,...with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable, when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative... | |
| George Van Santvoord - Judges - 1854 - 554 pages
...may alter the Constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The Constitution is either a superior, paramount law,...with ordinary legislative acts, and like other acts, is alterable when the Legislature shall please to alter it. " If the former part of the alternative... | |
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