 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1812 - 486 pages
...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....constitutions have been viewed with so much reverence, for rejecting the construction. But the peculiar expressions of the constitution of the United States furnish... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1827 - 674 pages
...be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence, with the same breath which professes to restrict their powers within narrow limits. It...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 pages
...be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence, with the same breath, which professes to restrict their powers within narrow limits. It...constitutions have been viewed with so much reverence, for rejecting the construction. But the peculiar expressions of the constitution of the United States furnish... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1827 - 686 pages
...what we deemed the greatest improvement on political institutions,—a written Constitution,—would of itself be sufficient, in America, where written...Constitutions have been viewed with so much reverence, for rejecting the construction. But the peculiar expressions of tl.e Constitution of the United States,... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 pages
...be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence, with the same breath which professes to restrict their powers within narrow limits. It...reduces to nothing what we have deemed the greatest improvemenLon politicalinstitutions, a written constitution, would of itself be sufficient, in America,... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1851 - 642 pages
...be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence, with the same breath which professes to restrict their powers within narrow limits. It...where written constitutions have been viewed with so mnch reverence, for rejecting the construction. But the peculiar expressions of the constitution of... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860 - 874 pages
...be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence with the same breath which professes to restrict their powers within narrow limits. It...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 pages
...be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence with the same breath which professes to restrict their powers within narrow limits. It...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 pages
...be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence, with the same breath which professes to restrict their powers within narrow limits. It...have deemed the greatest improvement on political institutions—a written constitution—would of itself be sufficient, in America, where written constitutions... | |
 | 1868 - 542 pages
...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...constitutions have been viewed with so much reverence for rejecting the construction. Undoubtedly it is a question of very grave consideration how far the different... | |
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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... 
