 | United States. Supreme Court - 1904 - 444 pages
...so felt and acknowledged, that alone, would, in my estimation, be a satisfactory vindicatiouof it. It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the...legislative body, by which any law is passed, to presume in favor of its validity, until its violation of the constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt.... | |
 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1917 - 840 pages
...but a decent respect," said the United States Supreme Court in Ogden v. Saunders, 12 Wheat. 213, 270, "due to the wisdom, the integrity and the patriotism...legislative 'body, by which any law is passed, to presume in favor of its validity, until its violation is proved beyond all reasonable doubt." Whether this immunity... | |
 | Maryland - 1831 - 256 pages
...so felt and acknowledged, that alone w.ould, in my estimation, be a satisfactory vindication of it. It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the...constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt. This has always been the ' language of this Court, when that subject has called for its decision; and... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 pages
...so felt and acknowledged, that alone would, in my estimation, be a satisfactory vindication of it. It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the...legislative body by which any law is passed, to presume in favor of its validity, until its violation of the constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt.... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - 1887 - 970 pages
...Legislature are to be presumed constitutional until the contrary is shown. Sears vs. Cottrell, 5 Mich., 259. "It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the...legislative body by which any law is passed to presume in favor of its validity." Ogden vs. Saunders, 12 Wheat., 270; Cooley's Const. Lim., 183. It might be... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1884 - 754 pages
...sustained. Chief Justice Marshall, in stating this rule in Ogden v. Saundera 12 Wheat. 270 says : " It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the...constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt." Scott v. Smarts Etirs 1 Mich. 295; Sears v. Cottrell 5 Mich. 251; Tyler v. People 8 Mich. 320; Oooley's... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1891 - 780 pages
...liberally construed, and all doubts solved in its favor. As was said in Ogden v. Sounders, 12 Wheat. 270: "It is but a decent respect, due to the wisdom, the...legislative body by which any law is passed, to presume in favor of its validity, until its violation of the constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt."... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 822 pages
...so felt and acknowledged, that alone would, in my estimation, be a satisfactory vindication of it. It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the...legislative body by which any law is passed, to presume in favor of its validity, until its violation of the constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt.... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1868 - 776 pages
...so felt and acknowledged, that alone would, in my estimation, be a satisfactory vindication of it. It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the...legislative body by which any law is passed, to presume in favor of its validity, until its violation of the constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt."2... | |
 | 1890 - 542 pages
...so felt and acknowledged, thut alone would, in my estimation, be a satisfactory rindication of it. It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the...legislative body by which any law is passed, to presume in favor of its validity, until its violation of the Constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt."... | |
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It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the integrity, and the patriotism of the legislative body by which any law is passed, to presume in favor of its validity, until its violation of the constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt. 
