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Act Quotes by John Marshall
- A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.
- Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of…
- The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged…
- The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it.
- When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those…
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