The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people.
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
Nothing in the 14th Amendment or in any other constitutional provision suggests that the president may usurp legislative power to prevent a violation of the Constitution.
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
The Constitution was about a limitation on power.
All governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion.
There is a higher law than the Constitution.
But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
The Constitution gives the Congress absolute authority within the District of Columbia on any legislative issues whatsoever.
Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful.