 The Constitution is the work or will of the people themselves, in their original, sovereign, and unlimited capacity. Law is the work or will of the legislature in their derivative and subordinate capacity. The one is the work of the creator, and the other...  Documents - Página 17331854Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Dickinson - 1801 - 450 páginas
...constitution is the work or will of the propit tbeixscfoes, in their original, sovereign, and unlimitted capacity. Law is the work or will of the legislature in their derivative capacity." Judge Patterson i charge to the jury in the IViaming case of Vmbtnft lessee against Dorrance... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1827 - 674 páginas
...conformable to it. The Constitution is the work or will of the people themselves, in their original, sovereign, and unlimited capacity. Law is the work...the other of the creature. The Constitution fixes the limits to the exercise of legislative authority, and prescribes the orbtt within which it must... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1831 - 758 páginas
...is the work or will of the people themselves, in their original, sovereign and unlimited capacity. The constitution fixes limits to the exercise of legislative authority, and prescribes the orbit in which it must more." The 10th article of the amendments provides, that "the powers not delegated... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1836 - 680 páginas
...they will be void. The Constitution is the work or will of the people themselves, iti their original, sovereign, and unlimited capacity. Law is the work...the legislature, in their derivative and subordinate cuparity. The one is the work of the creator, and the other of the creature. The Constitution fixes... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - 1844 - 372 páginas
...will of the people themselves, in their original, SOVEREIGN and unlimited capacity. Law is the work of the legislature, in their derivative and subordinate capacity. The one is the work of the creator, the other of the creature. The constitution fixes limits to the exercise of legislative authority,... | |
 | 1847 - 632 páginas
...statute is plain," say the Supreme Court of the United States, " nothing is left to construction."* " The constitution fixes limits to the exercise of legislative authority, and prescribes * Coxe's Digest of the Decision! of the Supreme Court of the United States, &c., p. 183. the orbit... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 836 páginas
...indemnification, it cannot, itself, constitutionally determine upon the amount of the compensation. Ibid. 5. The constitution fixes limits to the exercise of legislative authority, and prescribes the orbit ¡n which it must move.« Whatever may be the case in other countiies, yet in this there can be no... | |
 | Hiram Denio - 1863 - 692 páginas
...work and will of the people themselves in their original sovereign and unlimited capacity. Laws are the work or will of the legislature in their derivative...subordinate capacity. The one is the work of the creator, the other of the creature. The constitution fixes limits to the exercise of legislative authority,... | |
 | Jacob Barker - 1866 - 240 páginas
...power that made it. "The Constitution is the work or will of the people themselves in their original, sovereign and unlimited ' capacity. Law is the work or will of the Legislature, in its derivative and subordinate capacity. "The Constitution fixes limits to the exercise of legislative... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1869 - 790 páginas
...foundation of all law, and is a rule and commission by which both legislators and judges are to proceed. The constitution fixes limits to the exercise of legislative authority, and prescribes the orbit in which it must move. Whatever may be the case in other countries, yet in this there can be no doubt... | |
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