 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...  Transactions - Page 281by Maryland State Bar Association - 1909Full view - About this book
 | United States. Circuit Court (3rd Circuit), Bushrod Washington - Law reports, digests, etc - 1827 - 672 pages
...rescinding Act might well be doubted, were Georgia a single sovereign power." 74. " It may well be doubted, whether the nature of society, and of government,...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 - Court rules - 1829 - 758 pages
...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 - History - 1835 - 624 pages
...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 - History - 1830 - 628 pages
...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 - United States - 1836 - 680 pages
...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... | |
 | James Madison Porter - Charters - 1837 - 72 pages
...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 and of government does...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 - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 696 pages
...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;...an individual, fairly and honestly acquired, may be siezed without compensation. To the legislature all legislative power is granted ; but the question... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...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 nowhere intimated in that opinion, that a state statute, which divests a vested right, is... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court, John Lansing Wendell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1846 - 722 pages
...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 if...honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation ? It is no where intimated in that opinion that a state statute which divests a vested right is repugnant... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...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 does...honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation 1 " To the legislature all legislative power is granted; but the question, whether the act of transferring... | |
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