 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1812 - 486 pages
...what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended...to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary... | |
 | William Wirt - 1826 - 690 pages
...purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limit7 60 ntion committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended...the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohihited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested,... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1827 - 674 pages
...what purpose are powers limited? and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended...to be contested, that the Constitution controls any legislative Act repugnant to it ; or, that the legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 538 pages
...written constitution. But to what purpose is that limitation, if those limits may at anytime be passed ? The distinction between a government with limited...prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. If the constitution does not control any legislative act repugnant to it, then the legislature may... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 532 pages
...written constitution. But to what purpose is that limitation, if those limits may at any time be passed ? The distinction between a government with limited...prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. If the constitution does not control any legislative act repugnant to it, then the legislature may... | |
 | William Sullivan - 1830 - 72 pages
...what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended...to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary... | |
 | James Kent - 1832 - 590 pages
...constitution. But to what purpose is that limitation, if those limits may at any time be passed .? The distinction between a government with limited...prohibited, and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. If the constitution does not conlrol any legislative act repugnant to it, then the legislature may... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 pages
...what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed 1iy those intended to be restrained ? The distinction,...to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it ; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1827 - 686 pages
...purpose are powers limited.' and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended...whom they are imposed, and if Acts prohibited, and Jlcfs allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the Constitution... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 pages
...what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended...distinction between a government with limited and ur 'imited powers is abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed,... | |
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The powers of the legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits... 
