 | Edith M. Phelps - Courts - 1913 - 286 pages
...power of the people is superior to both, and that where the will of the legislature, declared in its statutes, stands in opposition to that of the people,...be governed by the latter rather than the former. * * * If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited constitution... | |
 | United States - 1913 - 1128 pages
...power of the people is superior to both, and that where the will of the legislature, declared in its statutes, stands in opposition to that of the people,...be governed by the latter rather than the former. * * * . If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited constitution... | |
 | Texas Bar Association - Bar associations - 1913 - 330 pages
...power of the people is superior to both, and that where the will of the Legislature declared in its statutes stands in opposition to that of the people...Constitution, the judges ought to be governed by the latter raher than the former. They ought to regulate their decisions by the fundamental laws rather than by... | |
 | Frederick Newton Judson - Courts - 1913 - 288 pages
...the legislature declared in its statutes stands in opposition to that of the people declared in their constitution, the judges ought to be governed by the latter rather than the former. The power of the people through the legislative will over the judiciary was forcibly illustrated in... | |
 | United States - 1915 - 558 pages
...power of the people is superior to both; and that where tho will of the legislature, declared in its statutes, stands in opposition to that of the people,...their decisions by the fundamental laws, rather than by those which are not fundamental. James Madison, 5 Elliot's Debates, 355-6: Mr. Madison thought it... | |
 | William Dameron Guthrie - Fiction - 1916 - 296 pages
...power of the people is superior to both; and that where the will of the legislature, declared in its statutes, stands in opposition to that of the people,...their decisions by the .fundamental laws, rather than by those which are not fundamental." 1 Equally conclusive and equally worthy of constant repetition... | |
 | Political science - 1917 - 272 pages
...power of the people is superior to both; and that where the will of the legislature declared in its statutes, stands in opposition to that of the people...their decisions by the fundamental laws, rather than by those which are not fundamental. "This exercise of judicial discretion, in determining between two... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1917 - 612 pages
...power of the people is superior to both; and that where the will of the legislature declared in its statutes, stands in opposition to that of the people...their decisions by the fundamental laws, rather than by those which are not fundamental. "This exercise of judicial discretion, in determining between two... | |
 | American Academy of Political and Social Science - Courts - 1917 - 250 pages
...power of the people is superior to both; and that where the will of the legislature declared in its statutes, stands in opposition to that of the people...their decisions by the fundamental laws, rather than by those which are not fundamental. "This exercise of judicial discretion, in determining between two... | |
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Nor does this conclusion by any means suppose a superiority of the judicial to the legislative power. It only supposes that the power of the people is superior to both ; and that where the will of the legislature, declared in its statutes, stands in opposition... 
