...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...legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, cau be valid. If it be said that the legislative body arc themselves the constitutional judges of their...

...F-dera ut (No. 78 ) " No position depends on dearer principles than that every act of a delegat* d authority contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised is void. So legislative act therefore contrary to th*Consti•I'ios can be valid. Nor does this conclusion by...

...American constitutions, a brief discussion of the grounds on which it rests cannot be unacceptable. There is no position which depends on clearer principles,...void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the const! tutipji,-cau/ be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that thedeputy is' greater than his...

...Constitution is absolutely null and void. Alexander Hamilton in No. 78 of the Federalist, wrote : " There is no position which depends on clearer principles...therefore contrary to the Constitution can be valid. tTo deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is...

...principle. An eminent American writer on public law has said : " There is no position which depends upon clearer principles " than that every act of a delegated...the commission under which it is exercised is VOID," the author does not say voidable, but void, and he adds, " no " legislative act, therefore, contrary...

...principle. An eminent American writer on public law has said : " There is no position which depends upon clearer principles than that every act of a delegated...the commission under which it is exercised is VOID " — the author does not say voidable, but void — and he adds, " no legislative act, therefore,...

...several departments in the exercise of a conferred and limited power. " To deny these propositions, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal ; and the servant above his master ; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people...

...The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited constitution There is no position which depends on clearer principles...therefore, contrary to the constitution can be valid. . . . The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution...

...their 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 Hamilton's Works, 230; 1 Bl. Com. 315. TLa hardship in this case, however, is, at the worst, only...

...acts of another void, must necessarily be superior to the one whoae acts may be declared void. . . . 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...