 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - New York (State) - 1831 - 758 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 686 pages
...capacity. The one is the work of the creator, and the other of the creature. The Constitution fixes the limits to the exercise of legislative authority, and prescribes the orbit within which it must move. In short, the Constitution is the sun of the political system, around which, all legislative, executive,... | |
 | Samuel Miller, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - Church polity - 1839 - 606 pages
...the Legislature in their derivative and subordinate capacity. The one is the work of the creator, and the other of the creature. The Constitution fixes...and prescribes the orbit within which it must move. In short, gentlemen, the Constitution is the sun of the political system, around which all legislative,... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - Natural law - 1844 - 372 pages
...will of the people themselves, in their original, SOVEREIGN and unlimited capacity. Law is the work of the legislature, in their derivative and subordinate...and prescribes the orbit, within which it must move. In short, the constitution is the sun of the political system, around which all legislative, executive,... | |
 | Presbyterian Church - 1847 - 632 pages
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1851 - 722 pages
...themselves in their original, sovereign, and unlimited capacity. The one is the work of the creator and the other of the creature. The Constitution fixes...and prescribes the orbit within which it must move. In short, the Constitution is the sun of the political system around which all Legislative, Executive,... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1851 - 716 pages
...themselves in their original, sovereign, and unlimited capacity. The one is the work of the creator and the other of the creature. The Constitution fixes...and prescribes the orbit within which it must move. In short, the Constitution is the sun of the political system around which all Legislative, Executive,... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1854 - 980 pages
...the legislature in their derivative and subordinate capacity. The one is the work of the Creator, and the other of the creature. The constitution fixes...and prescribes the orbit within which it must move. In short, the constitution is the sun of the political system, around which all legislative, executive,... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 836 pages
...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... | |
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Legislature in their derivative and subordinate capacity. The one is the work of the creator, and the other of the creature. The Constitution fixes limits to the exercise of legislative authority, and prescribes the orbit within which it must move. 
