 | United States. Congress - 1830 - Страниц: 692
...questions arising under it; the want of a judiciary power crowned the defects of the confederation. " Laws are a dead letter, without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation." "This is more necessary, when the frame of the Government is so compounded that tlic laws of the whole... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1830 - Страниц: 692
...questions arising under it; the want of a judiciary power crowned the defects of the confederation. " e the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, '• This is more necessary, when the frame of the Government is so compounded that the laws of the... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1869 - Страниц: 856
...confederation, remains yet to be mentioned— the__wap.t.. of . a judiciary power. Laws are^a^deadjetter, without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation. The J,r£aliea_ of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of... | |
 | Hampton Lawrence Carson - 1892 - Страниц: 472
...a circumstance which crowned the defects of the Confederation : "Laws are a dead letter," said he, "without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation. The treaties of the United 'Alexander Hamilton, "Resolutions for a General Convention 1783, The Federalist, The Continentalist... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1898 - Страниц: 472
...the Constitution has never breathed into them the breath of life. But, in the language of Hamilton, "laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation." The courts do not set aside unconstitutional laws, but they authoritatively declare the unconstitutionality... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1898 - Страниц: 484
...the Constitution has never breathed into them the breath of life. But, in the language of Hamilton, "laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation." The courts do not set aside unconstitutional laws, but they authoritatively declare the unconstitutionality... | |
 | Hampton Lawrence Carson - 1902 - Страниц: 414
...a circumstance which crowned the defects of the Confederation : "Laws are a dead letter," said he, "without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation. The treaties of the United 1Alexander Hamilton, "Resolutions for a General Convention 1783, The Federalist, The Continentalist... | |
 | James Alton James, Albert Hart Sanford - 1903 - Страниц: 432
...judiciary as the crowning defect of government under the Confedera- Lackoia tion. " Laws," he wrote, " are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation." Judicial powers were vested in the Continental Congress or in the agents of that body. The conviction... | |
 | Grace Raymond Hebard - 1904 - Страниц: 268
...sold? PART III THE ADMINISTRATION OF AFFAIRS IN WYOMING CHAPTER XVII. i THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE. Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation. — Alexander Hamilton. The written laws of the State are the Constitution and the Legislative acts.... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard - 1910 - Страниц: 840
...whatever." l It therefore had no way of enforcing federal laws by judicial process,2 and as Hamilton said: "Laws are a dead letter without] courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation. 1 The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as a part of the... | |
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A circumstance which crowns the defects of the Confederation remains yet to be mentioned, — the want of a judiciary power. Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation. 
