 | John Dickinson - 1801 - 450 halaman
...shall act, and by which it shall be bound. RIGHTS of Man,page 35, 36. " What is a constitution ? It is the form of government, delineated by the mighty hand of the people, in which certain frst principles or fundamental laws are established. The constitution is certain and fixed ; it contains... | |
 | John Dickinson - 1801 - 650 halaman
...shall act, and by which it shall be bound. RIGHTS of Man, page 35, 36. " What is a constitution ? It is the form of government, delineated by the mighty hand of the people, in which certainJirst principles or fundamental laws are established. The constitutiou is certain and fixed;... | |
 | George Watterston - 1818 - 158 halaman
...is a thing antecedent to a government ; and a government is only the creature of a constitution. A constitution, says judge Patterson, is the form of...government delineated by the mighty hand of the people, by which certain first principles of fundamental laws are established. — The constitution is certain... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, George Noble Stewart - 1835 - 526 halaman
...Mr Justice Patterson. That learned judge, speaking upon the subject, observes, "it (a constitution) is the form of government, delineated by the mighty...people, in which certain first principles of fundamental law are established. The constitution is certain and fixed; it contains the permanent will of the people,... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1831 - 758 halaman
...what is it that is thus made the sport of time and chance ? "A constitution," says a learned judge, "is the form of government delineated by the mighty...people, in which certain first principles of fundamental law are established. The constitution is certain and fixed ; it contains the permanent will of the... | |
 | Samuel Miller, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - 1839 - 606 halaman
...court, to be found in the case of Vanhorne vs. Dorrance, 2 Dallas' Rep. 308. "What is a Constitution? It is the form of government, delineated by the mighty...first principles of fundamental laws are established. The Constitution is certain and fixed; it contains the permanent will of the people, and is the supreme... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1841 - 1092 halaman
...country by a constitution, and what we understand to be a constitution now. "A constitution," he says, " is the form of government delineated by the mighty...hand of the people, in which certain first principles or fundamental laws are established." "It is," lie adds, "certain and fixed ;" it^contains " the permanent... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - 1844 - 372 halaman
...the bench of the Supreme Court, " What," says Judge Patterson, 2 Ball. 308 "is a constitution ? It is the form of government, delineated by the mighty...first principles of fundamental laws are established. The constitution is certain and fixed : it contains the permanent will of the people, and is the supreme... | |
 | George Oscar Rathbun - 1844 - 12 halaman
...work of the people themselves, in their original, sovereign, and unlimited capacity." "A constitution is the form of government delineated by the mighty hand of the people," is "paramount to the will of the legislature," and is liable only "to be revoked or altered by those... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Hallett - 1848 - 84 halaman
...Justice of the United States Supreme Court — " What is a constitution ? It is the form of governmeent, delineated by the mighty hand of the people, in which...first principles of fundamental laws are established. The constitution is certain and fixed ; it contains the permanent will of the people, and is the supreme... | |
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What is a Constitution? It is the form of government, delineated by the mighty hand of the people, in which certain first principles of fundamental laws are established. The constitution is certain and fixed ; it contains the permanent will of the people,... 
