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" It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply the rule to particular cases must of necessity expound and interpret that rule. If two laws conflict with each other the courts must decide on... "
Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United ... - Page 176
by United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1812
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Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Volume 1

Horace Binney, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1809 - 676 pages
...repugnant to that instrument is void." p. 180. " It is emphatically the province and duty of the judi" cial department to say what the law is. Those who apply...to particular cases, must of necessity expound and inter•' pret that rule. If two laws conflict with each other, the courts " must decide on the operation...
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A Discourse on the Lives and Characters of Thomas Jefferson and ..., Volume 1

William Wirt - Funeral sermons - 1826 - 690 pages
...legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. 'It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply...other, the courts must decide on the operation of each. ' So if a law be in opposition to the constitution ; if both the law and the constitution apply to...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 2

Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...invalidity, bind the courts, and oblige them to give it effect' or, in other words, though it be not a law, does it constitute a rule as operative as if...other, the courts must decide on the operation of each. So, if a law be in opposition to tin' Constitution ; if both the law and the Constitution apply to...
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A Discourse Delivered Before the Pilgrim Society, at Plymouth, on the Twenty ...

William Sullivan - New England - 1830 - 72 pages
...legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. 'It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply...other, the courts must decide on the operation of each. ' So if a law be in opposition to the constitution; if both the law and the constitution apply to a...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a ..., Volume 3

Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...is consequently to be considered by this court, as one of the fundamental principles of our society. It is not, therefore, to be lost sight of in the further...other, the courts must decide on the operation of each. So if a law be in opposition to the constitution ; if both the law and the constitution apply to a...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 2

Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 686 pages
...operative as if it was a law ? This would be to overthrow in fact, what was established in theory j and would seem, at first view, an absurdity too gross...other, the courts must decide on the operation of each. So, if a law be in opposition to the Constitution; if both the law and the Constitution apply to a...
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The Writings of John Marshall, Late Chief Justice of the United States, Upon ...

John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...receive a more attentive consideration. jit is emphatically the province and duty j>f the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply...and interpret that rule. If two laws conflict with eacii other, the courts must decide on the operation of each.> So.jif a law be in opposition to the...
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Commentaries on the constitution of the United States, Volume 1

Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1851 - 642 pages
...society. It is not, therefore, to be lost sight of, in the further consideration of this •abject . If an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution,...other, the courts must decide on the operation of each. So if a law be in opposition to the constitution; if both the law and the constitution apply to a particular...
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Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan, Volume 184

Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 830 pages
...terse language of Chief Justice Marshall in Marbury v. Madison, I Cranch, 137-178, is appropriate here: "If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each. So if a law be in opposition to the Constitution, if both the law and the Constitution apply to a particular...
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Sketches of the Lives and Judicial Services of the Chief-justices of the ...

George Van Santvoord - Electronic books - 1854 - 550 pages
...conclusion inevitably and irresistibly follows : "It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply...that rule. If two laws conflict with each other, the court must decide on the operation of each. So if a law be in opposition to the Constitution," &c.,...
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