 | 1904 - 1052 pages
...enactment, whatever may be the source from which the power to pass such enactment may have been derived. 'The nullity of any act inconsistent with the Constitution...declaration that the Constitution is the supreme law.' The state has undoubtedly the power, by appropriate legislation, to protect the public morals, the public... | |
 | Kansas. Supreme Court, Elliot V. Banks, William Craw Webb, Asa Maxson Fitz Randolph, Gasper Christopher Clemens, Thomas Emmet Dewey, Llewellyn James Graham, Oscar Leopold Moore, Earl Hilton Hatcher, Howard Franklin McCue - 1903 - 982 pages
...enactment, whatever may be the source from which the power to pass such enactment may have been derived. 'The nullity of any act inconsistent with the constitution...declaration that the constitution is the supreme law.' The state has undoubtedly the power, by appropriate The State v. Smiley. legislation, to protect the public... | |
 | United States. Plant Pest Control Division - 1922 - 1166 pages
...specified objects, is plenary as to those objects." * * * (Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 1, p. 196.) (2) "The nullity of any act. inconsistent with the Constitution,...declaration that the Constitution is the supreme law." (Id., p. 211.) (3) " It Is clear from the nature of our complex form of government that whenever the... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association, Maryland State Bar Association. Meeting - 1921 - 286 pages
...system. No such finality has ever existed in America and no such theory is tenable. On the contrary, ' ' the nullity of any act inconsistent with the Constitution...declaration that the Constitution is the supreme law," and no rights granted or secured by the Constitution can be impaired or destroyed by a state enactment... | |
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The appropriate application of that part of the clause which confers the same supremacy on laws and treaties is to such acts of the state... 
