If any one proposition could command the universal assent of mankind, we might expect it would be this, — that the government of the union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action. The Library of Original Sources - Página 146editado por - 1907Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| John Jay Knox - 1884 - 268 páginas
...powers, legislative, executive, and judicial. "The Government of the Union," said Chief Justice Marshall, "though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action ; " " and its laws, when made in pursuance of the Constitution, form the supreme law of the land."... | |
| John Jay Knox - 1884 - 280 páginas
...legislative, executive, and judicial. " The Government of the Union," said Chief Justice Marshall, "though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action ; " " and its laws, when made in pursuance of the Constitution, form the supreme law of the land."... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1884 - 828 páginas
...legislative, executive and judicial. " The government of the Union," said Chief Justice Marshall, " though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action;" "and its laws, when made in pursuance of the Constitution, form the supreme law of the land." " Among... | |
| Sir Fortunatus Dwarris - 1885 - 698 páginas
...this, it results, as was well expressed by Ch. J. Marshall in McCulloch v. State of Maryland, " that the government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action." " It is the government of all ; its powers are delegated by all ; it represents all, and acts for all.... | |
| 1885 - 890 páginas
...powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit." Again: "The government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action ; and its laws, when made in pursuance of the constitution, form the supreme law of the land." § 135.... | |
| West Virginia Bar Association - 1926 - 332 páginas
...; its powers are granted by them; and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit. "The government of the Union, though limited in its powers is supreme within its sphere of action ; and its laws, when made in pursuance of the constitution, form the supreme law of the land. "There... | |
| 1887 - 426 páginas
...rejected, also, the logic of the secessionist. The court held, and their opinion was unanimous: 1. That the government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within ite action. 2. That under our constitution the powers of sovereignty are divided between the government... | |
| Christopher Stuart Patterson - 1888 - 342 páginas
...constitutional provision, the government of the United States, as Marshall, CJ, said in McCulloch v. Maryland,2 "though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action," and, to the extent, and in the exercise, of the powers delegated to it, it is a sovereignty.3 6. The... | |
| Francis Newton Thorpe - 1889 - 648 páginas
...State sovereignties. The Government of the Union is emphatically and truly a government of the people. The Government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within the sphere of its action. Its laws, when made in pursuance of the Constitution, form the supreme law... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1890 - 828 páginas
...general government, though limited as to its ohjeqts, is yet supreme with respect to those objects, is the government of all, its powers are delegated by all, it represents all, and acts for all ; and, That America has chosen to be, in many respects and to many purposes, a nation, and for all... | |
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