 What is a Constitution? It is the form of government, delineated by the mighty hand of the people, in which certain first principles of fundamental laws are established. The constitution is certain and fixed ; it contains the permanent will of the people,...  Documents of the Senate of the State of New York - Strona 4autor: New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1831Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | John Dickinson - 1801 - Liczba stron: 450
...shall act, and by which it shall be bound. RIGHTS of Man,page 35, 36. " What is a constitution ? It is the form of government, delineated by the mighty hand of the people, in which certain frst principles or fundamental laws are established. The constitution is certain and fixed ; it contains... | |
 | John Dickinson - 1801 - Liczba stron: 650
...shall act, and by which it shall be bound. RIGHTS of Man, page 35, 36. " What is a constitution ? It is the form of government, delineated by the mighty hand of the people, in which certainJirst principles or fundamental laws are established. The constitutiou is certain and fixed;... | |
 | North Carolina. Superior Courts, John Haywood - 1806 - Liczba stron: 482
...hand of the people, in which cariai» ' fixed principles of fundamental laws are established. .Tbe. 'constitution is certain and fixed; It contains the permanent ' will of the peoplr, and is the supreme law of the land :• It» ' paramount to the power of the legislature, and... | |
 | George Watterston - 1818 - Liczba stron: 158
...government ; and a government is only the creature of a constitution. A constitution, says judge Patterson, is the form of government delineated by the mighty hand of the people, by which certain first principles of fundamental laws are established. — The constitution is certain... | |
 | South Carolina. Constitutional Court of Appeals, David James McCord - 1823 - Liczba stron: 576
...performing the very act which it was intended to prevent.— The constitution, says Judge Patterson, is the form of government delineated by the mighty...people, in which certain first principles of fundamental laws are established. It fixes the limits to the exercise of Legislative authority, and prescribes... | |
 | Samuel Miller, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - 1839 - Liczba stron: 606
...court, to be found in the case of Vanhorne vs. Dorrance, 2 Dallas' Rep. 308. "What is a Constitution? It is the form of government, delineated by the mighty...people, in which certain first principles of fundamental laws are established. The Constitution is certain and fixed; it contains the permanent will of the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1841 - Liczba stron: 1092
...country by a constitution, and what we understand to be a constitution now. "A constitution," he says, " is the form of government delineated by the mighty...hand of the people, in which certain first principles or fundamental laws are established." "It is," lie adds, "certain and fixed ;" it^contains " the permanent... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - 1844 - Liczba stron: 372
...the bench of the Supreme Court, " What," says Judge Patterson, 2 Ball. 308 "is a constitution ? It is the form of government, delineated by the mighty...people, in which certain first principles of fundamental laws are established. The constitution is certain and fixed : it contains the permanent will of the... | |
 | George Oscar Rathbun - 1844 - Liczba stron: 12
...work of the people themselves, in their original, sovereign, and unlimited capacity." "A constitution is the form of government delineated by the mighty hand of the people," is "paramount to the will of the legislature," and is liable only "to be revoked or altered by those... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - Liczba stron: 1040
...state in the Union has its constitution reduced to written exactitude and precision. The constitution is the form of government delineated by the mighty hand of the people, in which certain just principles of fundamental law are established. The constitution is certain and fixed, it contains... | |
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