 | United States. Congress. Internal Revenue Taxation Joint Committee - 1936 - 144 pages
...unconstitutional, the Supreme Court said : When an act of Congress is appropriately challenged in the courts as not conforming to the constitutional mandate,...decide whether the latter squares with the former. 4. POWER TO LEVY TAXES, DUTIES, IMPOSTS, AND EXCISES (A) IN GENERAL It being clear that the power to... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Courts - 1937 - 1038 pages
...the principles it lays down. When an act of Congress is appropriately challenged in the courts as uot conforming to the constitutional mandate, the Judicial...— to lay the article of the Constitution which Is involved beside the statute which is challenged and to decide whether the latter squares with the former.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Courts - 1937 - 1042 pages
...conform to the principles it lays down. When an act of Congress is appropriately challenged in the courts as not conforming to the constitutional mandate, the judicial branch of the Government bus only one duty — to lay the article of the Constitution which is involved beside the statute which... | |
 | Henry Steele Commager - History - 1950 - 504 pages
...mechanical theory of judicial review, alleging that when a court nullifies an act of Congress all it does is "to lay the article of the Constitution which is invoked...decide whether the latter squares with the former." The strength and persistence of natural law concepts is one of the most arresting phenomena in American... | |
 | Clovis C. Morrisson - Political Science - 1981 - 190 pages
...United States Supreme Court said they do: When an act of Congress is appropriately challenged in the Courts as not conforming to the constitutional mandate...the judicial branch of the Government has only one duty—to lay the article of the Constitution which is invoked beside the statute which is challenged... | |
 | Alexander M. Bickel - Law - 1986 - 322 pages
...Deal agricultural program ( A AA ) in 1936, Roberts said that the Court in constitutional litigation "has only one duty — to lay the Article of the Constitution...and to decide whether the latter squares with the former."21 This was not an exercise of power; there was no volition in it; it called for a low form... | |
 | Christian Lerat - Courts - 1989 - 340 pages
...appropriately challenged in the courts as not conforming to the constitutional mandate, the judicial branch has only one duty — to lay the article of the Constitution which is involved beside the statute which is challenged and to decide whether the latter squares with the former.... | |
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When an act of Congress is appropriately challenged in the courts as not conforming to the constitutional mandate the judicial branch of the government has only one duty, — to lay the article of the Constitution which is invoked beside the statute which... 
