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Legislative Quotes by John Marshall
- A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.
- The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when the…
- The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it.
More Legislative Quotes
- Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. — Robert Bork
- Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects,… — Thomas Jefferson
- The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will… — Samuel Adams
- Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none… — Thomas Jefferson
- I hope a start at getting some oil out of the enormous Alaska field isn't indefinitely mired in a bureaucratic morass as… — Malcolm Forbes
- Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage,… — Gro Harlem Brundtland
- The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those refinements which… — Alexander Hamilton
- Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on… — Ken Robinson