...authority : to repeat which, would swell this number to an improper size. The essence of the argument is, that every act of a delegated authority, contrary...the commission under which it is exercised, is void ; consequently that no legislative act, inconsistent with the Constitution, can be valid. That it is...

...authority : to repeat which, would swell this number to an improper size. The essence of the argument is, that every act of a delegated authority, contrary...the commission under which it is exercised, is void ; consequently that no legislative act, inconsistent with the Constitution, can be valid. That it is...

...delegated power. In this country it is not the Legislature who are supreme, but the people ; and " there is no position -which depends on clearer principles...commission under which it is exercised, is void/' (3 Ham. Wks. 230; 1 Bl. 315.) The hardship in this case. however, is, at the most, only a pecuniary...

...delegated power. In this country it is not the Legislature who are supreme, but the people ; and " there is no position which depends on clearer principles...commission under which it is exercised, is void/' (3 Ham. Wks. 230 ; 1 Bl. 315.) The hardship in this case, however, is, at the most, only a pecuniary...

...acts ot another void, must necessarily be superior to the one whose acts may be declared void. But there is no position which depends on clearer principles,...constitution, can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm th at the deputy is greater than the principal; that the servant is above his master — that the representatives...

...acts may be declared void. But there is no position which depends on clearer principles, than flint every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the...would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than the principal; that the «orvant is above his master — that the representatives of the people are...

...another void, must necessariIv be superior to the one whose acts may be declared void. But there is во position which depends on clearer principles, than...contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it ie exercised, is void. No legislativ« act, therefore, contrary to the constitution, can be valid....

...Alexander Hamilton, defending the Constitution then under discussion by the American people, said : " There is no position which depends on clearer principles,...exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, (and he might have added with propriety no Executive act,) contrary to the Constitution, can be valid....

...American constitutions, a brief discussion of the grounds on which it rests cannot be unacceptable. There is no position which depends on clearer principles,...the constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would bo to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master;...

...for himself the question of the validity of such a law. I cite first from the Federalist, No. 76 : There is no position which depends on clearer principles...therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers,...