 Thus the people of the United States, by whom the Constitution was ordained and established, have made it a condition to amending 'that instrument that the amendment be submitted to representative assemblies in the several States and be ratified in three-fourths...  United States Congressional Serial Set - Page 561928Full view - About this book
 | National Tax Association - 1922 - 622 pages
...opinion in Dillon v. Gloss (256 US 368, 374) that all governmental powers exercised by functionaries : " must have the sanction of the people of the United States, the original fountain of powtr." The fundamental doctrine is deemed settled, notwithstanding that the erroneous oncessions against... | |
 | 1924 - 924 pages
...representative assemblies in the several States and be ratified in three-fourths of them. The plain meaning of this is (a) that all amendments must have...expression of the people's will and be binding on all. This is no Federal Government acting, nor is it a "mass people" acting, but direct action by the sovereign... | |
 | Perry Belmont - 1925 - 652 pages
...representative assemblies in the several States and be ratified in three-fourths of them. The plain meaning of this is (a) that all amendments must have...in three-fourths of the States shall be taken as a distinctive expression of the people's will and be binding on all." Those who would completely transform... | |
 | Perry Belmont - 1926 - 352 pages
...representative assemblies in the several States and be ratified in three-fourths of them. The plain meaning of this is (a) that all amendments must have...States, the original fountain of power acting through representatives and assemblies, and (b) that ratification by these assemblies in three-fourths of the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1968 - 260 pages
...representative assemblies in the several States and be ratified in three-fourths of them. The plain meaning of this is (a) that all amendments must have...expression of the people's will and be binding on all.1 We do not find anything in the Article which suggests that an amendment once proposed is to be... | |
 | 1982 - 750 pages
...representative assemblies in the several States and be ratified in three-fourths of them. The plain meaning of this is (a) that all amendments must have...expression of the people's will and be binding on all. Id. 256 US at 374, 41 S.Ct. at 512 (emphasis added). Thus, the essence of a state's role in considering... | |
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