| Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1868 - 776 pages
...the courts when the judges assume to act and to render judgments or decrees without jurisdiction. " In exercising this high authority, the judges claim...of the legislature is held void, it is not because the judges have any control over the legislative power, but because the act is forbidden by the constitution,... | |
| Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 1024 pages
...supremacy over the legislature. They are only the administrators of the paramount law ex- 1872. pressing the public will. If an act of the legislature is held void, it is not. because the courts have any control over legislative power, but because the act is forbidden by the constitution,... | |
| Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 904 pages
...the courts when the judges assume to act and to render judgments or decrees without jurisdiction. " In exercising this high authority, the judges claim...of the legislature is held void, it is not because the judges have any control over the legislative power, but because the act is forbidden by the constitution,... | |
| Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 820 pages
...no supremacy over the legislature. They are only the administrators of the paramount Jaw expressing the public will. If an act of the legislature is held void, it is not because the courts have any control over legislative power, but because the act is forbidden by the constitution,... | |
| Ignacio Luis Vallarta - Amparo (Writ) - 1881 - 558 pages
...failed to keep within its constitutior.al limits, that they are at liberty to disregard its action In exercising this high authority, the judges claim...of the legislature is held void, it is not because the judges have any control over the legislativo power, but becanse tho act is forbidden by the Conatitution,... | |
| 1912 - 894 pages
...necessity of a law. In the case of Lindsay v. Commissioners (2 Bay.. 61) the court used this language: "In exercising this high authority the Judges claim...of the legislature Is held void, it is not because th* Judsres have any control over the legislative power, but because the act is forbidden by the constitution... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 866 pages
...language: " It was painful to him to be obliged to question the exercise of any legislative power. In exercising this high authority, the judges claim...of the legislature is held void, it is not because the judges have any control over the legislative power, but because the act is forbidden by the constitution,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 1350 pages
...no rights of property have grown up should unhesitatingly be declared null and void. "In exorcising this high authority, the judges claim no judicial supremacy; they are only tbe administrators of the public will. If an act of the Legislature is held void, it is not because... | |
| James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1888 - 732 pages
...transgressing the Federal Constitution. self to possess. To quote the words of an American decision:— " In exercising this high authority the judges claim...of the legislature is held void, it is not because the judges have any control over the legislative power, but because the Act is forbidden by the Constitution,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 932 pages
...act and to render judgments or decrees without jurisdiction/' C'ooley, Const. Lim. 6th ed. p. 192. "In exercising this high authority, the judges claim..."will. If an act of the legislature is held void, it is net because the judges have any control over the legislative power, but because the act is forbidden... | |
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