Constitution Quote by John Marshall Download Open image “A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.” — John Marshall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Constitution Contrary Government Inspirational Law Tyranny
There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Constitution is not a law, but it empowers the people to make laws... The Constitution tells us what shall not be a lawful… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
[An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the Court, be… — James Madison Copy Share Image
No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it. — Trey Gowdy Copy Share Image
The Government does not intend these things to happen, the Commission on whose report the Bill was founded did not intend these things to… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
[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,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well — John Marshall Copy Share Image
It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is...If two laws conflict with each other, the… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
I have always believed that national character... depends more on the female part of society than is generally imagined. Precepts from the lips of… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The federal government is acknowledged by all to be one of enumerated powers. The principle, that it can exercise only the powers granted to… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The events of my life are too unimportant, and have too little interest for any person not of my immediate family, to render them… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The institution of Masonry ought to be abandoned as one capable of much evil, and incapable of producing any good which might not be… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
If the agency of the mother in forming the character of her children is, in truth, so considerable, as I think it - if… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged, than the perfect equality of nations. Russia and Geneva have equal rights. It results from… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The government of the Union, then, ... is, emphatically, and truly, a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
While not widely reported, our victories in Iraq are plentiful. National elections, a democratic parliament and the drafting of a constitution are just some… — Paul Gillmor Copy Share Image
There is not a revolution that succe Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Constitution is very clear on the - on the declaration of war or reacting to international crimes - crimes against nations. It is… — Joe Pitts Copy Share Image
Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final. — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
“I am apprehensive, Sir, that in the warmth of my feelings, I may have uttered expressions, which were too vehement. If such has been… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If you try to come into our state and force our businesses to collect a sales tax in manner that violates our laws or… — Chris Sununu Copy Share Image
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