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" What is a Constitution? It is the form of government, delineated by the mighty hand of the people, in which certain first principles of fundamental laws are established. The constitution is certain and fixed ; it contains the permanent will of the people,... "
Documents of the Senate of the State of New York - Page 4
by New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1831
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The Political Writings of John Dickinson, Esquire: Late President ..., Volume 2

John Dickinson - Pennsylvania - 1801 - 450 pages
...shall act, and by which it shall be bound. RIGHTS of Man,page 35, 36. " What is a constitution ? It is the form of government, delineated by the mighty hand of the people, in which certain frst principles or fundamental laws are established. The constitution is certain and fixed ; it contains...
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The Political Writings of John Dickinson, Esquire, Late President ..., Volume 2

John Dickinson - Pennsylvania - 1801 - 650 pages
...shall act, and by which it shall be bound. RIGHTS of Man, page 35, 36. " What is a constitution ? It is the form of government, delineated by the mighty hand of the people, in which certainJirst principles or fundamental laws are established. The constitutiou is certain and fixed;...
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Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Superior Courts of Law and Equity ..., Volume 2

North Carolina. Superior Courts, John Haywood - Equity - 1806 - 482 pages
...hand of the people, in which cariai» ' fixed principles of fundamental laws are established. .Tbe. 'constitution is certain and fixed; It contains the permanent ' will of the peoplr, and is the supreme law of the land :• It» ' paramount to the power of the legislature, and...
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Letters from Washington, on the Constitution and Laws: With Sketches of Some ...

George Watterston - Statesmen - 1818 - 160 pages
...government ; and a government is only the creature of a constitution. A constitution, says judge Patterson, is the form of government delineated by the mighty hand of the people, by which certain first principles of fundamental laws are established. — The constitution is certain...
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Reports of Cases Determined in the Constitutional Court of South ..., Volume 2

South Carolina. Constitutional Court of Appeals, David James McCord - Law reports, digests, etc - 1823 - 578 pages
...performing the very act which it was intended to prevent.— The constitution, says Judge Patterson, is the form of government delineated by the mighty...people, in which certain first principles of fundamental laws are established. It fixes the limits to the exercise of Legislative authority, and prescribes...
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Report of the Presbyterian Church Case: The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, at ...

Samuel Miller, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - Quo warranto - 1839 - 606 pages
...court, to be found in the case of Vanhorne vs. Dorrance, 2 Dallas' Rep. 308. "What is a Constitution? It is the form of government, delineated by the mighty...people, in which certain first principles of fundamental laws are established. The Constitution is certain and fixed; it contains the permanent will of the...
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Report of the Select Committee [on] the Memorial of the Democratic Members ...

Edmund Burke - 1841 - 1092 pages
...country by a constitution, and what we understand to be a constitution now. "A constitution," he says, " is the form of government delineated by the mighty...hand of the people, in which certain first principles or fundamental laws are established." "It is," lie adds, "certain and fixed ;" it^contains " the permanent...
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A Few Lectures on Natural Law

Henry St. George Tucker - Natural law - 1844 - 372 pages
...the bench of the Supreme Court, " What," says Judge Patterson, 2 Ball. 308 "is a constitution ? It is the form of government, delineated by the mighty...people, in which certain first principles of fundamental laws are established. The constitution is certain and fixed : it contains the permanent will of the...
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Speech on the Resolution Authorizing the Committee on the Rhode Island ...

George Oscar Rathbun - Constitutional history - 1844 - 12 pages
...work of the people themselves, in their original, sovereign, and unlimited capacity." "A constitution is the form of government delineated by the mighty hand of the people," is "paramount to the will of the legislature," and is liable only "to be revoked or altered by those...
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Commentaries on Statute and Constitutional Law and Statutory and ...

E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...state in the Union has its constitution reduced to written exactitude and precision. The constitution is the form of government delineated by the mighty hand of the people, in which certain just principles of fundamental law are established. The constitution is certain and fixed, it contains...
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