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... assumed and acted upon . A man or a nation that went back to first principles , in order to decide each question as ... assuming on the con- trary that the system of government which most promotes the moral and material welfare of the ...
... assumed and acted upon . A man or a nation that went back to first principles , in order to decide each question as ... assuming on the con- trary that the system of government which most promotes the moral and material welfare of the ...
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... assumed as an axiom that their own form of government was the most perfect that human ingenuity could devise ; while the political writers of each nation received the same doctrine very much like a proposition in geometry , — a thing to ...
... assumed as an axiom that their own form of government was the most perfect that human ingenuity could devise ; while the political writers of each nation received the same doctrine very much like a proposition in geometry , — a thing to ...
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... assumed an authority to hold a statute invalid if it was repugnant to the common principles of justice and civil liberty , even if it did not conflict with any express provision of the Con- stitution . It is needless to say that such a ...
... assumed an authority to hold a statute invalid if it was repugnant to the common principles of justice and civil liberty , even if it did not conflict with any express provision of the Con- stitution . It is needless to say that such a ...
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... assumed power to set aside an act of Congress would be tolerated for a moment . The power of our courts , then , to pass judgment upon the validity of statutes , depends upon the fact that the voice of Con- gress is not the voice of the ...
... assumed power to set aside an act of Congress would be tolerated for a moment . The power of our courts , then , to pass judgment upon the validity of statutes , depends upon the fact that the voice of Con- gress is not the voice of the ...
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... assumption of power by the national government . But it must be remembered that the statute was in- tended to counteract an illegal exercise of power , not by the States , it is true , but by persons subject to the control of the States ...
... assumption of power by the national government . But it must be remembered that the statute was in- tended to counteract an illegal exercise of power , not by the States , it is true , but by persons subject to the control of the States ...
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Page 166 - is a social compact by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.
Page 167 - We, therefore, the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the goodness of the Great Legislator of the Universe, in affording us, in the course of His providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud, violence or surprise, of entering into an original, explicit, and solemn compact with each other ; and of forming a new Constitution of Civil Government, for ourselves and posterity ; and devoutly imploring His direction in so interesting a design, DO agree...
Page 189 - No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it.
Page 141 - Virginnia, doe by these presents solemnly & mutualy in ye presence of God, and one of another, covenant & combine our selves togeather into a civill body politick, for our better ordering & preservation & furtherance of ye ends aforesaid ; and by vertue hearof to enacte, constitute, and frame such just & equall lawes, ordinances, acts, constitutions, & offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete & convenient for ye generall good of ye colonie, unto which we promise all due submission...
Page 145 - This is more than consent, or concord; it is a real unity of them all, in one and the same person, made by covenant of every man with every man, in such manner as if every man should say to every man...
Page 155 - Whenever the legislators endeavour to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience, and are left to the common refuge which God hath provided for all men against force and violence.
Page 207 - If a determinate human superior, not in a habit of obedience to a like superior, receive habitual obedience from the bulk of a given society, that determinate superior is sovereign in that society, and the society (including the superior) is a society political and independent.
Page 84 - It is evident, therefore, that, according to their primitive signification, they have no application to constitutions professedly founded upon the power of the people and executed by their immediate representatives and servants. Here, in strictness, the people surrender nothing, and as they retain everything, they have no need of particular reservations. "We, the people of the United States, to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution...
Page 138 - And to be commanded we do consent, when that society whereof we are part hath at any time before consented, without revoking the same after by the like universal agreement.
Page 32 - Since the Reform Act the House of Lords has become a revising and suspending House. It can alter Bills ; it can reject Bills on which the House of Commons is not yet thoroughly in earnest — upon which the nation is not yet determined. Their veto is a sort of hypothetical veto. They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.