Legislative Act Quotes
- A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law. — John Marshall
- The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps,… — James Madison
- There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it is… — Alexander Hamilton
- Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. — Carl Menger
- [E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary… — Alexander Hamilton
- We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will… — Tony Judt
- The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it. — John Marshall