...prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, either that the constitution controls any legislative act...people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. 1 But I cannot follow further his course of reasoning and illustration. Suffice it to say that as a...

...contested that the Constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it, or that the legislature can alter the Constitution by an ordinary act. Between...people to limit a power in its own nature illimitable." Here was established one of the great foundation principles of the government, and then in a few sentences,...

...contested that the Constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it, or that the legislature can alter the Constitution by an ordinary act. Between...attempts on the part of the people to limit a power in own nature illimitable." Here was established one of the great foundation principles of the government,...

...established by a course of reasoning which may be indicated by a few extracts from the opinion : " The Constitution is either a superior paramount law,...people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. " Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental...

...v. Madison -. ' ' Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The Constitution is either superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary...people to limit a power in its own nature illimitable." (5 US 176, 177. See p. 180 as to judge swearing to discharge his duties.) The judgment of the court...

...is no middle ground. The Constitution is either a superior, paramount law, i See Federalist, No. 78. unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level...people to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. Certainly all those who have framed written Constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental...

...means, or it is on the level of ordinary legislative acts, alterable at the will of the legislature. If the former part of the alternative be true then...people to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. . . . Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental...

...alternative be tine, then a legislative act, contrary to the Constitution, is not law; if the latter part bo true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts,...people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. In this opinion Justice Marshall, with his usual clearness, expresses what perhaps we may call the...

...If the first be true, then a legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law; if the other be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts...on the part of the people to limit a power in its natnre illimitable. The decision was of far-reaching importance £\nd lies at the foundation of our...

...contrary to the Constitution is not law: if the latter part be true, then written constitu[69] tions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable. "Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental...