 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1812 - 486 sider
...same breath which professes to restrict their powers within narrow limits. It is prescribing Kmils, and declaring that those limits may be passed at pleasure....greatest improvement on political institutions, a written constitution, would of itself be sufficient, in America, where written constitutions have been... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1827 - 674 sider
...legislature a practical and real omnipotence, with the same breath which professes to restrict their powers within narrow limits. It is prescribing limits,...pleasure. "That it thus reduces to nothing, what we deemed the greatest improvement on political institutions, — a written Constitution, — would of... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 sider
...legislature a practical and real omnipotence, with the same breath, which professes to restrict their powers within narrow limits. It is prescribing limits,...greatest improvement on political institutions — a written constitution — would of itself be sufficient, in America, where written constitutions have... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 sider
...legislature a practical and real omnipotence, with the same breath which professes to restrict their powers within narrow limits. It is prescribing limits,...reduces to nothing what we have deemed the greatest improvemenLon politicalinstitutions, a written constitution, would of itself be sufficient, in America,... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860 - 874 sider
...legislature a practical and real omnipotence with the same breath which professes to restrict their powers within narrow limits. It is prescribing limits...declaring that those limits may be passed at pleasure." — CJ MARSHALL, in Marbury tw. Madison, 1 Cranch, 177. In general, in our State constitutions the... | |
 | George Sharswood - 1860 - 212 sider
...legislature a practical and real omnipotence with the same breath which professes to restrict their powers within narrow limits. It is prescribing limits,...declaring that those limits may be passed at pleasure." (Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch, 177.) More weighty words than these have never, speaking of human things,... | |
 | John Fulton - 1864 - 582 sider
...legislature a practical and real omnipotence, with the same breath which professes to restrict their powers within narrow limits. It is prescribing limits,...have deemed the greatest improvement on political institutions—a written constitution—would of itself be sufficient, in America, where written constitutions... | |
 | 1868 - 542 sider
...legislature a practical and real omnipotence with the same breath which professes to restrict their pow rs within narrow limits. It is prescribing limits, and...greatest improvement on political institutions — a written constitution — would of itself be sufficient in America, where written constitutions have... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - 1868 - 532 sider
...with the same breath which professes to restrict their pow rs within narrow limits. It is.prescribing limits, and declaring that those limits may be passed...greatest improvement on political institutions — a written constitution — would of itself be sufficient in America, where written constitutions have... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Alexander James Dallas, William Cranch, United States. Supreme Court, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard - 1870 - 708 sider
...legislature a practical and real omnipotence, with the same breath which professes to restrict their powers within narrow limits. It is prescribing limits,...greatest improvement on political institutions, a written constitution, would of itself be sufficient, in America, where written constitutions have been... | |
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It would declare that if the legislature shall do what is expressly forbidden, such act, notwithstanding the express prohibition, is in reality effectual. It would be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence, with the same breath which... 
