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...legislature »ay alter the constitution by an ordinary act. N Between these alternatives there is no Biddle ground. The constitution is either a superior paramount...alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. * * » » • • . • Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them...

...legislative act repugnant to it ; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary "Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. ******* "Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the...

...legislative act repugnant to it ; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act "Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. ******* "Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the...

...certainty of a mathematical demonstration." The language of Chief Justice Marshall is clear and conclusive. "The Constitution is either a superior, paramount...a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like any other act, is alterable 'when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the...

...observation, moreover, leads to the conclusion that Marshall presents a false dilemma in insisting thai "(tjhe constitution is either a superior paramount law. unchangeable...is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and. " IK France, Switzerland, and Belgium (and to tome extent Great Britain where Mjgna CarU and other...

...precisely the opposite of what the framers intended. As Justice Marshall wrote in Marbury v. Madison, [T]here is no middle ground. The constitution is either...by ordinary means or it is on a level with ordinary m legislative acts, and like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it....

...legislative act repugnant to it ; or that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives, there is no middle ground....alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. lf the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act, contrary to the constitution,...

...to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional to be implicit in the nature of a written constitution: The constitution is either a superior paramount law,...to alter it. If the former part of the alternative is true, then a legislative act, contrary to the constitution is not law: if the latter part be true,...

...any legislative act repugnant to it." Otherwise, the legislature may alter the Constitution at will. "Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it." Marshall said it was absolutely clear that all of those who had framed written constitutions — an...