A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations which Rest Upon the Legislative Power of the States of the American UnionLittle, Brown, 1878 - 883 pages |
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... Const . ( 4th ed . ) c . 47 . 4 Const . of U. S. 15th Amend- ment ; Story on Const . ( 4th ed . ) c . 48 . Other provisions have for their object to prevent discriminations by CH . II . ] 19 THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES .
... Const . ( 4th ed . ) c . 47 . 4 Const . of U. S. 15th Amend- ment ; Story on Const . ( 4th ed . ) c . 48 . Other provisions have for their object to prevent discriminations by CH . II . ] 19 THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES .
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... object the protection of person or property are usually repeated in the bills of rights contained in the State ... objects , might be so exercised as altogether to destroy such agencies and impair or even destroy the national credit ...
... object the protection of person or property are usually repeated in the bills of rights contained in the State ... objects , might be so exercised as altogether to destroy such agencies and impair or even destroy the national credit ...
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... object of written constitutions is , to keep the departments of government as distinct as possible ; and for this ... objects which most engage public men . They are not , or never should be , political men . They have often unpleasant ...
... object of written constitutions is , to keep the departments of government as distinct as possible ; and for this ... objects which most engage public men . They are not , or never should be , political men . They have often unpleasant ...
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... object to be accomplished or the mischief designed to be remedied or guarded against by the clause in which the ambigu- ity is met with.1 " When we once know the reason which alone determines the will of the law - makers , we ought to ...
... object to be accomplished or the mischief designed to be remedied or guarded against by the clause in which the ambigu- ity is met with.1 " When we once know the reason which alone determines the will of the law - makers , we ought to ...
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... object to the assessment and have it corrected , whether the return be made before or after the expiration of the forty days , the case differs from that of Chestnut v . Marsh , 1 at the very point on which that case turned . Nor is ...
... object to the assessment and have it corrected , whether the return be made before or after the expiration of the forty days , the case differs from that of Chestnut v . Marsh , 1 at the very point on which that case turned . Nor is ...
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Page 11 - States; 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes; 4. To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States; 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures; 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States; 7.
Page 321 - I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States...
Page 634 - It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations...
Page 714 - The power we allude to is rather the police power, the power vested in the legislature by the constitution to make, ordain, and establish all manner of wholesome and reasonable laws, statutes, and ordinances, either with penalties or without, not repugnant to the constitution, as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of the commonwealth and of the subjects of the same.
Page 221 - The question, whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the Constitution, is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which ought seldom, if ever, to be decided in the affirmative, in a doubtful case.
Page 45 - All men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; and pursuing and obtaining safety- and happiness.
Page 12 - To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased, by the consent of the Legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings : and, 17.
Page 68 - The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of the legislature, shall be requisite to every bill appropriating the public moneys or property, for local or private purposes, or creating, continuing, altering, or renewing any body politic or corporate.
Page 314 - They would contain various exceptions to powers not granted; and, on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?
Page 334 - The contract between Georgia and the purchasers was executed by the grant. A contract executed, as well as one which is executory, contains obligations binding on the parties. A grant, in its own nature, amounts to an extinguishment of the right of the grantor, and implies a contract not to reassert that right. A party is, therefore, always estopped by his own grant.