Annual Report: 1884

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Page 37 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Page 34 - States, which provides that no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or "immunities of the citizens of the United States...
Page 11 - Thou hast spread thy wing, and sheltered us from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.
Page 30 - The Judiciary can only arrest the execution of a statute when it conflicts with the Constitution. It cannot run a race of opinions upon points of right, reason and expediency with the lawmaking power.
Page 29 - ... every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny: nay, that even laws themselves, whether made with or without our consent, if they regulate and constrain our conduct in matters of mere indifference, without any good end in view, are regulations destructive of liberty...
Page 37 - Section 1. The legislative power shall be vested in a Senate and House of Representatives, which shall be designated " The Legislature of the State of Wyoming.
Page 35 - To his mind no reason could be assigned why ten years' practice in the State should not qualify one to practice medicine just as well when a portion of the ten years succeed the passage of the act as when tfie whole ten years preceded the passage of the act. Nevertheless, he could not hold that the fact that this provision of the law was thus arbitrary and unjust, rendered it contrary to the Constitution of Nevada prohibiting special legislation. But he did regard this provision as contrary to...
Page 29 - ... any sum not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, at the discretion of the court...
Page 30 - The rule of law upon this subject appears to be, that, except where the constitution has imposed limits upon the legislative power, it must be considered as practically absolute, whether it operate according to natural justice or not in any particular case.
Page 34 - Ohio, that it shall be unlawful for any person within the limits of said state, who has not attended two full courses of instruction, and graduated at some school of medicine, either of the United States or some foreign country, or, who cannot produce a certificate of qualification from some state or county medical society, and is not a person of good moral character, to practice medicine in' any of its departments for reward or compensation...

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