 | Samuel Eagle Forman - United States - 1905 - 488 pages
...the very essence of the judicial duty. The courts cannot close their eyes to the Constitution and see only the law. This doctrine would subvert the very foundation of all written constitutions. It would be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence with the same breath which professes... | |
 | Le Baron Bradford Colt - Presidents - 1906 - 190 pages
...reduced to the necessity of maintaining that courts must close their eyes on the Constitution, and see only the law. This doctrine would subvert the very...express prohibition, is in reality effectual. ... It is prescribing limits, and declaring that those limits may be passed at pleasure. " That it thus reduces... | |
 | Charles Grove Haines - Courts - 1909 - 194 pages
...only the law. Such a doctrine is held to be contrary to the nature of written Constitutions, because it would declare that an act which, according to the...and theory of our government, is entirely void, is in practice completely obligatory. This would give a practical omnipotence to the legislature in the... | |
 | Simeon Davidson Fess - Political parties - 1910 - 466 pages
...reduced to the necessity of maintaining that courts must close their eyes on the Constitution and see only the law. This doctrine would subvert the very...theory of our government, is entirely void, is yet in practise completely obligatory. It would declare that if the legislature shall do what is expressly... | |
 | Allen Johnson - Constitutional history - 1912 - 620 pages
...reduced to the necessity of maintaining that courts must close their eyes on the constitution, and see only the law. This doctrine would subvert the very...effectual. It would be giving to the legislature a practi250 NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY cal and real omnipotence, with the same breath which proiesses to restrict... | |
 | Michigan. Department of Attorney General - 1913 - 722 pages
...reduced to the necessity of maintaining that courts must close their eyes on the constitution, and see only the law. This doctrine would subvert the very...void, is yet, in practice, completely obligatory. Jt would declare that if the legislature shall do what is expressly forbidden, such act, notwithstanding... | |
 | Great Britain - 1913 - 250 pages
...maintaining that courts must close their eyes on the Constitution, and see only the law. This doctrine ivould subvert the very foundation of all written Constitutions....principles and theory of our Government, is entirely void and is yet in practice, completely obligatory. It would declare that if the Legislature should do what... | |
 | Wallace Hugh Whigam - Commercial law - 1913 - 436 pages
...the very essence of the judicial duty. The courts cannot close their eyes to the Constitution and see only the law. This doctrine would subvert the very foundation of all written constitutions. It would be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence with the same breath which professes... | |
 | Edith M. Phelps - Courts - 1913 - 286 pages
...reduced to the necessity of maintaining that courts must close their eyes on the Constitution and see only the law. This doctrine would subvert the very foundation of all written constituti9ns. It would declare that an act which, according to the principles and theory of our Government,... | |
 | Harold Edgar Barnes - Constitutional law - 1915 - 376 pages
...reduced to the necessity of maintaining that courts must close their eyes on the Constitution, and see only the law. This doctrine would subvert the very...principles and theory of our government, is entirely void, it yet, in practice, completely obligatory. It would declare that if the legislature shall do what... | |
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Those, then, who controvert the principle that the constitution is to be considered, in court, as a paramount law, are reduced to the necessity of maintaining that courts must close their eyes on the constitution, and see only the law. This doctrine would... 
