A constitution formed so as to enable a party to overrule its very government, and to overpower the people too, answers the purposes neither of government nor of freedom.
Eminent characters, to be sure, overrule places and circumstances.
The members drew up a petition, demanding the franchise for the Catholics, and sent it direct to England, attempting thus to overrule their own Irish Government.
The only way to overcome this difficulty was to establish some paramount authority which should overrule the local and provincial interests of the island, and by a superior power keep the factions from flying at each other's throats.
Whatsoever is divine revelation, ought to overrule all our opinions, prejudices, and interest, and hath a right to be received with full assent.
I leave it in the hands of God, for I believe that all these things will be overruled for good, for the Lord will suffer nothing to go to his people in the world that he will not overrule eventually for their greater good.
The will overrule them in a way that you and I, today, do not comprehend, or do not foresee, for ultimate good.
I leave it in the hand of God, for I believe that all these things will be overruled for good, for the Lord will suffer nothing to come to his people in the world that he will not overrule eventually for their greater good.
The two new appointees uniting with three dissenting judges, a majority of the court could overrule the long settled decisions of the court, and sustain the act of congress making depreciated paper a legal tender.
We make the assertion that the supreme court of the United States does not possess the power under the constitution to overrule or disregard the decision of a state court upon questions arising under state laws and constitutions.
As you wished, I am settled here; may the Lord overruleit for good.
But the Lord, I hope, will overrule everything for good, if we only carefully entreat him.
This power must either be a direct negative on the State laws, or an authority in the federal courts to overrule such as might be in manifest contravention of the articles of Union.
That the strong bias of one decision would be apt to overrule the influence of any new lights which might be brought to vary the complexion of another decision?
Her convention has pronounced the revenue laws of the United States unconstitutional; and this decision she does not allow any authority of the United States to overrule or reverse.
It behoves you to do your utmost to improve this most critical time, and may God in his mercy overrule all the efforts of man for its good!
And Shakespeare knew full well, that in poetical workmanship Memory stands absolved from the laws of time, and that the living order of art has a perfect right to overrule and supersede the chronological order of facts.
It is very noteworthy, withal, how some of them are so secure in the spirit and substance of the moral law, that they do not scruple, in certain circumstances, to overrule its letter and form.
Federal systems arise by the union of separate States, each State giving up a part of its power to a joint body which can levy taxes and can overrule the local authorities.
It is needless to point out that every detail in which the three English members overrule the two Irish will be fought out again in the English Parliament by the forty Irish members.
It will, of course, overrule any conflicting view of the Provost-Marshal-General, if there be such.
I do not mean to say that if the Provost-Marshal-General can find it practicable to give credits by subdistricts, I overrule him in that.
He numbered by the thousand horsemen the notablest of cavaliers and he came to overrule three-score-and-six tribes of the Arabs.
God does not cause that, though He will overrule it to do what He wants done.
Dolly attempted to overrule the decision made ostensibly in her favour, that their stay in Rome should be prolonged; but had no success.
Many legislators were in favor of enacting another income tax law forthwith and endeavoring to coerce the Court, through the force of legislative and popular opinion, to overrule its decision.
Hunter's Lessee[1] was asserted the right of the Federal Supreme Court to overrule the judgment of a state court on questions arising under the Federal Constitution.
I made again a powerful effort to overrule the challenge.
The reason is--that he allows his understanding to overrule his eyes.
