Congress may alter, but it cannot supersede these regulations [of the States] till it supplies others in their places, so as to leave the right of representation perfect.
To supersede meant to set aside: he could not bring himself to assent to this statement.
The laws, being positive prescriptions, supersede the mores so far as they are adopted.
At the time of Mohammed's birth blood revenge between the kin groups was so destructive that all were instinctively struggling towards devices which might supersede it.
Hence the double interest of harmony and coöperation in the in-group and war strength against the out-groups forces the invention of devices by which to supersedeblood revenge in the in-group.
Mr. COIT wished the gentleman from Virginia would withdraw his motion, until he took the sense of the committee upon one which he proposed to make, and which was calculated, if agreed to, to supersede the one he had made.
He thought to vote for this resolution on account of obtaining a more full and complete report than was to be had in the newspapers; thus it would supersede the necessity of taking so many papers.
At a considerable expense to the public this manufacture has been brought to such a state of maturity as, with continued encouragement, will supersede the necessity of future importations from foreign countries.
Mr. ALLEN said, he would move an amendment which would supersede that under consideration, by making the resolution extend to all aliens in this country.
He considers it as made tosupersede the powers of the President to remove the judges.
Mr. HEATH did not wish that the members, being furnished with debates agreeably to the motion, should supersede the receiving of newspapers, yet he should vote for it.
After four hours of this I went to bed at midnight, and was lulled to sleep by barrel-organs, which supersede the trumpets about that hour.
On Saturday, bake, and provide such a supply for the table as shall supersede the necessity of cooking on Sunday.
Is not the giving largely to public objects of benevolence sometimes suffered to supersede the duty of "considering the poor," and "bringing him that is cast out to our house?
He invented a religious system founded on the speculative mysticism of the Neoplatonists, and founded a sect, the members of which believed that the new creed would supersede all existing forms of belief.
It would be difficult at the present stage of its development to predict the extent to which the turbine will ultimately supersede the old type of engine.
It is now claimed, however, that a means has been found of rapidly heating the air, and it is even predicted that the hot-air engine will in due course entirely supersede the steam engine.
From the end of the 12th century literary and official documents, often including local charters, abound in almost every dialect, until the growing influence of Paris caused its language to supersede in writing the other local ones.
In Anglo-Norman the accusative forms very early begin to replace the nominative, and soon supersede them, the language following the tendency of contemporaneous English.
After this a larger fleet was necessary, in order to be superior; and a still larger would again supersede it.
What a man alone would not have supersede and render the obligations been able to effect, men have executed of law and government unnecessary, in concert; and altogether they while they remained perfectly just preserve their work.
Finally, Arbitration Courts were to be instituted to supersede the ordinary courts of law in civil cases, which "would deprive the corrupt bar of Ireland of much of its incentive to corruption" and foster a spirit of brotherhood.
He even went so far as to say that the locomotive would yet supersede every other traction-power for drawing heavy loads.
Mr. Pease accordingly promised that on some early day he would go over to Killingworth, and take a look at the wonderful machine that was to supersede horses.
He wanted tosupersede Mr. Goring in the inquiry; and he accordingly appoints, with the consent of the Council, two creatures of his own to go and assist in that inquiry.
If better events supersede this necessity what harm will be done?
Well, some authorities hold that the human race is a failure, and that a new form of life, better adapted to high civilization, will supersede us as we have superseded the ape and the elephant.
Therefore I say that we who live three hundred years can be of no use to you who live less than a hundred, and that our true destiny is not to advise and govern you, but to supplant and supersede you.
Sir Edward Hawke and Admiral Saunders were ordered to supersede Mr. Byng, whom they were instructed to send home under arrest.
Other two Englishmen had settled amongst them; one of them, called Nobbs, a self-constituted missionary, who was endeavouring to supersede Buffet in his office of religious instructor.
Domitius had crossed the Apennines at the head of an army on his way northward to supersede Caesar in his command, and had reached the town of Corfinium, which was perhaps one third of the way between Rome and the Rubicon.
This plan has, for some reason, never been introduced into America, and it is now probable that it never will be, as the railway system will doubtless supersede it.
Sylla proposed to supersede him by sending Pompey to take his place.
She pitied him; she began to feel a protecting interest mingle with and almost supersede her admiration, and was at the same time disappointed and yet drawn to him.
This is to supersede the lesser and less harmonious affections by renunciation; and though by this ascetic path we may get to heaven, we cannot get thither a whole and perfect man.
But there is another way, to supersede them by reconciliation, in which the soul and all the faculties and senses pursue a common route and share in one desire.
Another, with more astonishing sagacity, feared that the king might succeed, by what the lawyers call remitter, to the prerogatives of the British kings before Julius Caesar, which would supersede Magna Charta.
Yet in some of these instances the words "by the king's special command," were inserted in the commitment; so that they served to repel the pretension of an arbitrary right to supersede the law by his personal authority.
It is far better by other means to supersede any supposed necessity or any motive for such examination or visit.
We must inquire whether the startling "anecdotes" of the Secret History justly supersede the estimate and tradition of so long a period.
She sent Longinus, as the new exarch, to supersede the conqueror of Italy, and in most insulting language recalled the eunuch Narses to Constantinople.
Thus the Japhetic movement could be carried out on a large scale, and European civilization come to supersede the obsolete manners of those old and effete races of Eastern Asia.
He durst not speak to him before the brethren; for the abbot at Ceuta had warned him not to discover himself in the priory at Tetuan, until his success with the Basha should supersede any cause of fear at such an enterprize.
Cornelia's astonishment was not so great as to supersede the active exercise of the benevolence which brought her to his side.
