 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1850 - 660 pages
...to suppose that they may violate the fundamental law, is, as has been most eloquently expressed, " to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principal;...the people themselves ; that men acting by virtue of delegated power may do, not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid." The law... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly. Senate - Ohio - 1849 - 492 pages
...is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm that the deputy is greater...virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. "Where the will of the Legislature declared in its statutes,... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1852 - 528 pages
...is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is...virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - Law - 1852 - 435 pages
...of Rights, art. 8), can perform no act which, if contrary to that will, should be deemed lawful. "To deny this, would be to affirm that the deputy is greater...the people themselves ; that men acting by virtue of power may do, not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid." Their oaths of office,... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - Electronic books - 1852 - 444 pages
...Rights, art. 8), can perform no act which, if contrary to that will, should be deemed lawful. " To deny this, would be to affirm that the deputy is greater...the people themselves ; that men acting by virtue of power may do, not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid." Their oaths of office,... | |
 | George Robertson - Kentucky - 1855 - 422 pages
...the constitution, can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm th at the deputy is greater than the principal; that the servant is above his master —...the people are superior to the people themselves. It is far more rational to suppose that the courts were designed to be an intermediate body, between... | |
 | George Robertson - Kentucky - 1855 - 422 pages
...is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the constitution, can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than the principal; that the «orvant is above his master — that the representatives of the people are... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1857 - 504 pages
...is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is...virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the... | |
 | Henry Barton Dawson - Constitutional law - 1863 - 770 pages
...is exercised, is void. No Legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is...virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. If it be said that the Legislative body are themselves the... | |
 | Dennis A. Mahony - United States - 1863 - 434 pages
...he might have added with propriety no Executive act,) contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is...the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of power may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid." The very thing the... | |
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There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution can be valid.... 
