 | Levi Woodbury - Law - 1852 - 435 pages
...can perform no act which, if contrary to that will, should be deemed lawful. "To deny this, would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principal...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,... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - Electronic books - 1852 - 444 pages
...can perform no act which, if contrary to that will, should be deemed lawful. " To deny this, would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principal...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,... | |
 | George Robertson - Kentucky - 1855 - 422 pages
...the constitution, can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm th at the deputy is greater than the principal; that the servant is above his master —...the people are superior to the people themselves. It is far more rational to suppose that the courts were designed to be an intermediate body, between... | |
 | George Robertson - Kentucky - 1855 - 422 pages
...valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than the principal; that the «orvant is above his master — that the representatives of...the people are superior to the people themselves. It is far more rational to suppose that tfie courts were designed to be an intermediate body, between... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1857 - 504 pages
...void. No 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...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... | |
 | Henry Barton Dawson - Constitutional law - 1863 - 770 pages
...void. No 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...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... | |
 | Dennis A. Mahony - United States - 1863 - 434 pages
...with propriety no Executive act,) contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal;...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... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1864 - 776 pages
...void. No 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...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... | |
 | United States - 1864 - 786 pages
...void. No 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1864 - 850 pages
...void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would bo to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal;...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... | |
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There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution can be valid.... 
