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* ''Rochelle v. Lane'', 148 S.W. 558, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/148_SW_558.pdf#page=3 560] (Tex. 1912) ("The judgment, being a judicial act, cannot be reviewed by an executive officer. . . . It is urged that previous Comptrollers have exercised the same power for many years. If that be true, it is time that it should be known in Texas that a disregard of the Constitution by the usurpation of power on the part of officials is not sanctified by its long continuance, and that each officer should confine his acts to the limits of his power. We would not disparage the zeal of respondent nor challenge the honesty of his purpose, but the superiority of the Constitution must be sustained until the sovereign voters shall change it.") | * ''Rochelle v. Lane'', 148 S.W. 558, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/148_SW_558.pdf#page=3 560] (Tex. 1912) ("The judgment, being a judicial act, cannot be reviewed by an executive officer. . . . It is urged that previous Comptrollers have exercised the same power for many years. If that be true, it is time that it should be known in Texas that a disregard of the Constitution by the usurpation of power on the part of officials is not sanctified by its long continuance, and that each officer should confine his acts to the limits of his power. We would not disparage the zeal of respondent nor challenge the honesty of his purpose, but the superiority of the Constitution must be sustained until the sovereign voters shall change it.") | ||
("What is the Constitution? It is the basis on which the government rests–the authority for all law–and is the commission under which the Legislature, the executive, and the judiciary act. It is permanent and not influenced by the temper of the times. Whatever the collisions of opposite interests, the virulence of parties and the conspiracies of corruption, public robbery and treason, it continues like the Himalaya or the Andes, amidst and above the storm,–the nation's destiny dependent upon its subsistence. If a legislative act impugn its principles, the act must yield; and whenever it is brought before the court it must be declared void. Nay, the act is inherently nothing.") | |||
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