A Treatise on the Limitations of Police Power in the United States: Considered from Both a Civil and Criminal StandpointF.H. Thomas Law Book Company, 1886 - 662 pages |
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... says : 3 " The police of a State , in a comprehensive sense , embraces its whole system of internal regulation , by which the State seeks not only to preserve the public order and to prevent offenses against the State , but also to ...
... says : 3 " The police of a State , in a comprehensive sense , embraces its whole system of internal regulation , by which the State seeks not only to preserve the public order and to prevent offenses against the State , but also to ...
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... say what is meant by the clause . Judge Cooley says : " Probably any punishment declared by statute for any offense , which was punished in the same way at common law , could not be regarded as cruel and unusual in the constitutional ...
... say what is meant by the clause . Judge Cooley says : " Probably any punishment declared by statute for any offense , which was punished in the same way at common law , could not be regarded as cruel and unusual in the constitutional ...
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... says : " We may well doubt the right to establish the whipping post and the pillory in the States in which they were ... say , to what extent with the direct sanction of law . respect to the constitutionality of laws imposing corporal ...
... says : " We may well doubt the right to establish the whipping post and the pillory in the States in which they were ... say , to what extent with the direct sanction of law . respect to the constitutionality of laws imposing corporal ...
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... Says Black- stone : For which reason the law requires that the person , who kills another in his own defense , should have retreated as far as he conveniently or safely can , to avoid the violence of the assault , before he turns upon ...
... Says Black- stone : For which reason the law requires that the person , who kills another in his own defense , should have retreated as far as he conveniently or safely can , to avoid the violence of the assault , before he turns upon ...
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... says : There is one species of homicide se defendendo where the party slain is equally innocent as he who occasions his death and yet this homicide is also excusable from the great universal principle of self - preservation , which ...
... says : There is one species of homicide se defendendo where the party slain is equally innocent as he who occasions his death and yet this homicide is also excusable from the great universal principle of self - preservation , which ...
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Page 71 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law; a law which hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Page 71 - ... deprived of his life, liberty, or property, unless by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land.
Page 229 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence, and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created.
Page 231 - That all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement; subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law, and applicable alike to citizens of every race and color, regardless of any previous condition of servitude.
Page 471 - It is admitted that the power of taxing the people and their property is essential to the very existence of government, and may be legitimately exercised on the objects to which it is applicable, to the utmost extent to which the government may choose to carry it. The only security against the abuse of this power is found in the structure of the government itself. In imposing a tax the legislature acts upon its constituents. This is in general a sufficient security against erroneous and oppressive...
Page 626 - That all pilots in the bays, inlets, rivers, harbors, and ports of the United States shall continue to be regulated in conformity with the existing laws of the States, respectively, wherein such pilots may be, or with such laws as the States may respectively hereafter enact for the purpose, until further legislative provision shall be made by congress.
Page 11 - All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness.
Page 141 - Whereas the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...
Page 235 - When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he in effect grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good to the extent of the interest he has thus created. He may withdraw his grant by discontinuing the use, but so long as he maintains the use, he must submit to the control.
Page 2 - It extends to the protection of the lives, limbs, health, comfort and quiet of all persons, and the protection of all property within the state; and persons and property are subjected to all kinds of restraints and burdens in order to secure the general comfort, health and prosperity of the state. Of the perfect right of the legislature to do this no question ever was, or upon acknowledged general principles, ever can be made, so far as natural persons are concerned.