 | United States. Congress - United States - 1837 - 740 pages
...principles. If I should err in presenting ! theirs, I shall at least place my own beyond contradiction. The constitution of the United States declares that " no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts." This is a most wise and salutary provision; may it be perpetual!... | |
 | John Bouvier - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1843 - 752 pages
...legislature by which one or more persons are declared to be attainted, and their property confiscated. The constitution of the United States declares that no state shall pass any bill of attainder. During the revolutionary war, bills of attainder, and ex post facto acts of confiscation, wore passed... | |
 | Lysander Spooner - Slavery - 1845 - 168 pages
...constitutional right to use them, if need be, for the defence of one's liberty or life. Seventh. The constitution of the United States declares that "no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts." " The obligation of contracts," here spoken of, is, of... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 764 pages
...in consequence of the exemption, is too clear to admit of doubt — it is expressly so enacted. The constitution of the United States declares that no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts, Art. I, sec. 10; and our State constitution sanctions this... | |
 | Kentucky. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional amendments - 1849 - 1140 pages
...imposes limits to the 'legislatures of the several states, which none ' claim a right to pass. The constitution of the ' United States declares that no state shall pass ' any bill of attainder, ex pott facto law, or law 'impairing the obligation of contracts. "Does the case now under consideration... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1851 - 838 pages
...exists. LODMIAV But, in answer to the question propounded, we say emphatically, yes! The STATE BANK. Constitution of the United States declares, that no State shall pass any liiw impairing the obligation of a contract; and any law uf the State of Louisiana, then, made either... | |
 | History, Modern - 1851 - 610 pages
...extradition of fugitive slaves, I have no doubt upon that subject, were they disposed to do so. It would not violate the Constitution of the United States. The Constitution of the United States imposes a duty upon this Government to establish a system by which fugitives can be reclaimed. And... | |
 | George Robertson - Kentucky - 1855 - 422 pages
...contracts made liefort the passage of the act; that it impairs "the obligation of a contract." The constitution of the United States declares, that "no state shall pass any ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contract*." An ex post facto law is oue which... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (7th Circuit), John McLean - Law reports, digests, etc - 1856 - 686 pages
...indeed the fundamental and paramount law of the State ; but it is only a law of the State, and the Constitution of the United States declares that "no State shall pass any bill of attainder, txpoit facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts," 4c., and the Supreme Court of the... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1856 - 756 pages
...of the business shows the previous act to have been a violation of the Constitution of Georgia. The )u O2zb $ +t 5 L5`sF . .d ȡ5Cf 㩤 ɢ(7 [ } rL` Es )Ջ ex poet facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts." That no contract has been impaired,... | |
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The constitution of the United States declares that no state shall "pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts. 
