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" Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the Legislature, repugnant to the Constitution,... "
The North American Review - Page 364
edited by - 1827
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the ..., Volume 1

United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Court rules - 1812 - 486 pages
...fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and, consequently, the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. court, as one of the fundamental principles of our socicty. It is not therefore to be lost sight of...
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A Discourse on the Lives and Characters of Thomas Jefferson and ..., Volume 1

William Wirt - Funeral sermons - 1826 - 690 pages
...the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. 'It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 2

Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an Act of the legislature, repugnant to the Constitution, is void. " This theory is essentially attached to written Constitutions, and is consequently to be considered,...
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A Discourse Delivered Before the Pilgrim Society, at Plymouth, on the Twenty ...

William Sullivan - New England - 1830 - 72 pages
...the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. 'It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those...
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Commentaries on American Law, Volume 1

James Kent - Law - 1832 - 590 pages
...if acts prohibited, and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. If the constitution does not conlrol any legislative act repugnant to it, then the legislature...cannot bind the courts, and oblige them to give it eflect ; for this would be to overthrow, in fact, what was established in theory, and to make that...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a ..., Volume 3

Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. This theory is essentially attached to a written constitution, and is consequently to be considered...
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Lives of Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of America

James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be that an act of the legislature repugnant to the constitution is void. " This theory is essentially attached to a written constitution, and is consequently to be considered...
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Sketches of the Lives and Judicial Services of the Chief-justices of the ...

George Van Santvoord - Electronic books - 1854 - 550 pages
...fundamental and permanent law of the nation, and, consequently, the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the Legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void.. " This theory is essentially attached to a written constitution, and is consequently to be considered...
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Free Government in England and America: Containing the Great ..., Volume 25

John Fulton - Constitutional history - 1864 - 582 pages
...the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void. " This theory is essentially attached to a written constitution, and is consequently to be considered,...
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Trial of Andrew Johnson: President of the United States, Before ..., Volume 2

Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 532 pages
...fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and, consequently, the theory of every such government must be that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the Constitution, is void. This theory is essentially attached to a written constitution, and is, consequently, to be considered...
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