 | Hays - 1992 - 552 sider
...it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is...representatives of the people are superior to the peop1e themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize,... | |
 | Drucilla Cornell, Michel Rosenfeld, David Gray Carlson - 1992 - 428 sider
...Hamilton stated in The Federalist: "No legislative act, . . . contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy...principal; that the servant is above his master." By subordinating legislative acts to the Constitution as the supreme law of the land, Hamilton also... | |
 | Harvey Flaumenhaft - 1992 - 340 sider
...denial, which would set the deputy above his principal or the servant above his master, would imply that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves. Hamilton then answers those who, though conceding that legislative acts are invalid if contrary to... | |
 | George Wescott Carey - 1994 - 220 sider
...Thus, "no legislative act" that contravenes the Constitution is valid. "To deny this," he contends, "would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above the master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men... | |
 | St. George Tucker, William Blackstone - 2000 - 3301 sider
...it is exercised is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the constitution can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm, that the deputy is...of the people are superior to the people themselves ; that men acting by virtue of powers may do, notonly what their powers do not authorize, but what... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1996 - 762 sider
...legislative act . . . contrary to the constitution can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm . . . that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.");... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1998 - 220 sider
...it is exercised is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is...the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they... | |
 | John P. Kaminski, Richard Leffler - 1998 - 244 sider
...which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act therefore contrary to the constitution can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is...the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorise, but what they... | |
 | Bardo Fassbender - 1998 - 444 sider
...by independent courts. '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; . . . that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves ... ,'36 'The Constitution', Ham32... | |
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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.... 
