 | United States. Supreme Court - 1968 - 686 sider
...was held in Foster and Elam, 2 Peters, 309, to be political. Yet in the same case the Court declared: "Our Constitution declares a treaty to be the law...operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provisions." Ibid. 314. I presume it is scarcely necessary to inquire, whether the construction of... | |
 | Henry Wheaton, United States. Supreme Court, Two gentlemen of the New-York bar - 1829 - 432 sider
...infra-territorial, but'is carried into execution by the sovereign power of the respective parlies to the instrument. In the United States a different principle is established. Our constitution declares a treaty to be'the law of the land. It is consequently to be regarded in Courts of Justice as equivalent to an... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1830 - 646 sider
...power of the respective parties to the instrument. In the United States a different prin104 105 ciple is established. Our constitution declares a treaty to be the law of ihe land. It is, consequently, to be regarded in courts of justice as equivalent to an act of the legislature,... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1835 - 624 sider
...instrument In the United States a different prin104 cipleis established. Our constitution declares a treat; to be the law of the land. It is, consequently, to be regarded HI courts of justice as equivalent to an act of the legislature, whenever it operates of itself without... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 788 sider
...; but is carried into execution by the sovereign power of the respective parties to the instrument. In the United States a different principle is established....law of the land. It is consequently to be regarded by courts of justice as equivalent to an act of the legislature, whenever it operates of itself without... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 sider
...Our constitution declares a treaty to be the law of the land. It is consequently to be regarded by courts of justice as equivalent to an act of the legislature,...itself without the aid of any legislative provision." i Circular Letter of Congress, 13th April, 1787 ; 12 Journ. of Congress, 32 to 36. a See the opinion... | |
 | William Alexander Duer - 1833 - 264 sider
...territories. 513. In the United States, however, it is settled by a decision of the Supreme Court, that as the Constitution declares a Treaty to be the " Law of the .Land," it is to be regarded in Courts of Justice as equivalent to a Legislative Act, whenever it operates of itself,... | |
 | William Alexander Duer - 1833 - 264 sider
...the " Law of the Land," it is to be regarded in Courts of Justice as equivalent to a Legislative Act, whenever it operates of itself, without the aid of any Legislative provision. 514. But when the terms of the stipulation import an txeculory contract, the Treaty refers for its... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1912 - 702 sider
...constitutes, therefore, a decision, first, that treaties must, if properly worded to convey such intention, " be regarded in Courts of Justice as equivalent to an act of the Legislature " ; secondly, that they may, however, " import a contract only " ; thirdly, that in the case at bar,... | |
 | William Alexander Duer - 1843 - 436 sider
...Supreme Court,* that, inasmuch as the Constitution declares a treaty to be the law of the land, it is to be regarded in courts of justice as equivalent...Legislature, whenever it operates of itself without requiring the aid of any legislative provision. But when the terms of any treaty stipulation import... | |
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Our Constitution declares a treaty to be the law of the land. It is, consequently, to be regarded in courts of justice as equivalent to an act of the legislature, whenever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision. 
