 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1812 - 486 str.
...is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed...abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited *and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition... | |
 | William Wirt - 1826 - 690 str.
...written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limit7 60 ntion committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed...abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohihited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1827 - 674 str.
...is written. To what purpose are powers limited? and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed...abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if Acts prohibited, and Acts allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 538 str.
...written constitution. But to what purpose is that limitation, if those limits may at anytime be passed ? The distinction between a government with limited...abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. If the constitution... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 532 str.
...written constitution. But to what purpose is that limitation, if those limits may at any time be passed ? The distinction between a government with limited...abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. If the constitution... | |
 | William Sullivan - 1830 - 72 str.
...is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed...abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition... | |
 | James Kent - 1832 - 590 str.
...constitution. But to what purpose is that limitation, if those limits may at any time be passed .? The distinction between a government with limited...abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited, and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. If the constitution... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 str.
...what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed 1iy those intended to be restrained ? The distinction,...abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons, on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited, and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 str.
...is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed...distinction between a government with limited and ur 'imited powers is abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed,... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 str.
...constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed...abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. It is a proposition... | |
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The powers of the legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits... 
