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This higher authority, which no legislature could "overleap without destroying its own foundation," was the British Constitution.

If the general legislature should, at any time, overleap their limits, the judicial department is a constitutional check.

Why he did not overleap it is not known; but having probably became intimidated, he suddenly stopped and cried aloud for aid.

See you yonder rock—the largest—where the foam breaks most fiercely, as if in wrath because it cannot overleap it?

It would not be well for us to overleap one grade of joy or suffering: our life would lose its completeness and beauty.

One had to overleap gaps—even abysses—where material reasoning came to a full stop.

ROBINFRANCES HODGSON BURNETT

The water itself, perhaps a hundred feet wide, would be an ineffectual barrier; such fierce flame would overleap it.

CEDAR CREEKELIZABETH HELY WALSHE

Would an exploit of that sort overleap the pride of birth; and endow our humble candles with the winding-sheet of pedigree?

It was painfully clear that he must do something without further delay, must either conquer want or overleap it.

In critical emergencies, the States-General are often compelled to overleap their constitutional bounds.

THE FEDERALIST PAPERSALEXANDER HAMILTON, JOHN JAY, AND JAMES MADISON

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OCTOBER 26, 1985