 It may well be doubted whether the nature of society and of government does not prescribe some limits to the legislative power; and if any be prescribed, where are they to be found, if the property of an individual, fairly and honestly acquired, may be...  Harvard Law Review - Page 2371914Full view - About this book
 | United States. Circuit Court (3rd Circuit), Bushrod Washington - 1827 - 672 lehte
...validity of this rescinding Act might well be doubted, were Georgia a single sovereign power." 74. " It may well be doubted, whether the nature of society,...found, if the property of an individual, fairly and honesUy acquired, may be seized without compensation." p. 135. , It is true, that private interests... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Richard Peters - 1829 - 758 lehte
...some limits to the legislative power; and he asks, " if any be pre[Satteriee vs. Matthewson.] scribed, where are they to be found, if the property of an individual, fairly and honestly acquired, maybe seized without compensation1?" It is no where intimated in that opinion, that a state statute,... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1835 - 624 lehte
...nature of society and of government do not prescribe some limits to the legislative power; and he asks, "if any be prescribed, where are they to be found,...honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation ?" It is no where intimated in that opinion, that a state statute, which devests a vested right, is... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1830 - 628 lehte
...nature of society and of government do not prescribe some limits to the legislative power; and he asks, "if any be prescribed, where are they to be found,...honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation ?" It is no where intimated in that opinion, that a state statute, which devests a vested right, is... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1836 - 680 lehte
...not prescril>e some limits to the legislative power ; arid if any he prescribed, where are they to he found, if the property of an individual, fairly and...honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation? IbvL 39. The question whether a law lie void for its repugnancy to the Constitution, is a question... | |
 | N. Saxton, New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1836 - 766 lehte
...Story, J., (speaking in reference to Rhode Island, where they have no written constitution,) says, It may well be doubted, whether the nature of society and of government, does not present some limits to legislative authority : 6 Crunch? s R. 135 ; 2 Peters' R. 657. This position... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1837 - 696 lehte
...legitimate, is rendered so by a power applicable to the case of every individual in the community. It may well be doubted whether the nature of society...honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation. • To the legislature, all legislative power is granted; but the .question, whether the act of transferring... | |
 | James Madison Porter - 1837 - 72 lehte
...legitimate, is rendered so by a power applicable to the case of everv individual in the community. It may well be doubted whether the nature of society...some limits to the legislative power ; and, if any be proscribed, where are they to be found, if the property of an individual, fairly and honestly acquired,... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1838 - 696 lehte
...legitimate, is rendered so by a power applicable to the case of every individual in the community. It may well be doubted whether the nature of society and of government docs not prescribe some limits to the legislative power; and, if any be prescribed, where are they... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 lehte
...legitimate, is rendered so by a power applicable to the case of every individual in the community. It may well be doubted whether the nature of society...honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation ? To the legislature all legislative power is granted ; but the question, whether the act of transferring... | |
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