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Excerpt from American Jurisprudence: An Address Delivered Before the Graduating Classes at the Seventy-Fourth Anniversary of Yale Law School, on June 27th, 1898
The United States Constitution was the first experiment on a large scale in the history of government, to establish and define by an organic written law the scope and limita tions of sovereign power, and to bound by prescribed lines legislative, executive and judicial functions. It de clared that that instrument, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made or which shall be made under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land. In England Parliament is the supreme and domi nant power and the uncontrollable authority in legisla tion. The laws enacted by Parliament are subject to no revision, and the only security for private rights against Oppressive legislation rests in the wisdom of that body. The Courts of England cannot set aside or disregard an act of Parliament, however much it may seem to con?ict with natural justice or constitutional principles.
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