 ... which will determine and overrule an apparent and flagrant abuse of legislative power; as to authorize manifest injustice by positive law; or to take away that security for personal liberty, or private property, for the protection whereof the government...  The Bar: West Virginia - Page 2961902Full view - About this book
 | Robert Walsh - American essays - 1830 - 580 pages
...private property, for the protection whereof the government was established: — an act of legislation (for I cannot call it a law), contrary to the great...principles of the social compact, cannot be considered as a rightful exercise of legislative authority. The obligation of a law, on governments established... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - Pennsylvania - 1828 - 434 pages
...a principle. An act of the legislature, says Judge Chase, in Colden and wife TS. Bull, 3 Dal. 386, contrary to the great first principles of the social...exercise of legislative authority. The obligation of a la'.v in governments established on expressed compact and en republican principles, must ba determined... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 696 pages
...was established. An act of the legislature, for I cannot call it. a law, contrary to the first great principles of the social compact, cannot be considered...of legislative authority. The obligation of a law. [Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge et al.]. in governments established on express compact, and... | |
 | William Dexter Wilson - Slavery - 1839 - 64 pages
...private property for the protection whereof the government was established. An act of the legislature contrary to the great first principles of the social...considered a rightful exercise of legislative authority.' " Ely Moore's speech in the House of Representatives, Feb. 4, 1839. Here, I ask, are not the supreme... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...property, for the protection whereof the government was established. An act of the legislature,—for I cannot call it a law, — contrary to the great...compact, cannot be considered a rightful exercise of the legislative authority. The obligation of law, in governments established on express compact and... | |
 | Florida. Legislature. House of Representatives - Florida - 1845 - 990 pages
...liberty, or private property, for the protection whereof the government was established. An act of the legislature, (for I cannot call it a law,) contrary...principles of the social compact, cannot be considered a KIGHTEUL EXERCISE OF LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY. The obligation ofa law in governments established on express... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 770 pages
...liberty or private property, for the protection whereof the government was established. An act of the legislature (for I cannot call it a law) contrary...considered a rightful exercise of legislative authority." In the Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Story has held this language : " The fundamental maxims of a free... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 778 pages
...the protection whereof the Government was established. But an Act of the legislature (for I canuot call it a law) contrary to the great first principles of the social compact, caunot be considered a rightful exercise of legislative authority. The obligation of a law iti governments... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 678 pages
...liberty or private property, for the protection whereof the Government was established. But an Act of the legislature (for I cannot call it a law) contrary to the great Jirst principles of the social compact, cannot be considered a rightful exercise of legislative authority.... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 694 pages
...established. But an Act of the legislature (for I cannot call it a law) contrary to the great fa-it principles of the social compact, cannot be considered a rightful exercise of leyislative authority. The obligation of a law in governments founded on express compart and on republican... | |
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