 | George Watterston - Statesmen - 1818 - 158 pages
...anil fixed ; it contains the permanent will of the people, and is the supreme law of the land."— It is the work or will of the people themselves, in their original, sovereign and unlimited capacity. necessary to repeat that according to this definition, which will be admitted to be correct, England,... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...the Constitution. It is their commission ; and therefore all their acts must be conformable to it. The Constitution is the work or will of the people...original, sovereign, and unlimited capacity. Law is the work or will of the legislature in their derivative and subordinate capacity. The one is the work of... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - New York (State) - 1831 - 758 pages
...are creatures of the constitution ; they owe their existence to if, they derive their powers from it. The constitution is the work or will of the people...their original, sovereign and unlimited capacity. The constitution fixes limits to the exercise of legislative authority, and prescribes the orbit in... | |
 | Samuel Miller, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - Church polity - 1839 - 606 pages
...their commission; and therefore all their acts must be conformable to it, or else they will be void. The Constitution is the work or will of the people...original, sovereign, and unlimited capacity. Law is the work or will of the Legislature in their derivative and subordinate capacity. The one is the work of... | |
 | 1842 - 440 pages
...The legislatures are creatures of the constitution. They derive their power from the constitution. The constitution is the work or will of the people themselves, in their original lerereign, and unlimited capacity, law is the work of the legislature in their derivative and subordinate... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - Natural law - 1844 - 372 pages
...all their acts must be conformable thereto, or they will be void. The constitution is the work or the will of the people themselves, in their original, SOVEREIGN and unlimited capacity. Law is the work of the legislature, in their derivative and subordinate capacity. The one is the work of the creator,... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1845 - 558 pages
...their commission, and, therefore, all their acts must be conformable to it, or else they will be void. The constitution is the work or will of the people themselves in their original sovereign and independent capacity. Law is the work or will of the legislature in its derivative or subordinate capacity.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Hallett - Constitutional history - 1848 - 84 pages
...their commission , and therefore all their acts must bo conformable to it, or else they will be void. The constitution is the work or will of the people...their original, sovereign, and unlimited capacity." In Chisholm vs. the State of Georgia, 2 Dalí., 448, in the Supreme Court, 1793, Mr. Justice Iredell... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...principle and the death-giving stroke must proceed from the same hand. The constitution is the wish and will of the people themselves in their original, sovereign, and unlimited capacity, while statute law is the work of the legislature, in their derivative and subordinate capacity. The... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1851 - 716 pages
...all their acts must be conformable to it, or else they will be void. The Constitution is the work and will of the people 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 limits to... | |
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The Constitution is the work or will of the people themselves, in their original, sovereign, and unlimited capacity. 
