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| Law - 1877 - 558 pages
...a power which may be abused, but that is no argument against its existence. For protection against abuses by legislatures the people must resort to the polls, not to the courts. After what has already been said it is unnecessary to refer at length to the effect of the other provision... | |
| Illinois - 1877 - 182 pages
...a power which may be abused, but that is no argument against its existence. For protection against abuses by legislatures the people must resort to the polls, not to the courts. After what has already been said it is unnecessary to refer at length to the effect of the other provision... | |
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1877 - 526 pages
...a power which may be abused, but that is no argument against its existence. For protection against abuses by legislatures the people must resort to the polls, not to the courts. After what has already been said it is unnecessary to refer at length to the effect of the other provision... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - Property - 1881 - 44 pages
...a power which may be abused ; but this is no argument against its existence. For protection against abuses by legislatures the people must resort to the polls, not to the courts." [Opinion of the court, in the case of Munn vs. Illinois.] I thought that the people had resorted most... | |
| David Rorer - Railroad law - 1884 - 996 pages
...power which maybe abused; but that is no argument against its existence. For protection against abuse* by legislatures the people must resort to the polls, not to the courts. After what has already been said, it is unnecessary to refer at length to the effect of the other provision... | |
| United States. Congress - Interstate commerce - 1884 - 582 pages
...power which may be abused ; but that is no argument against its existence. For protection againstabuses by Legislatures the people must resort to the polls, not to the courts. Not only is it true that railroads are subject to regulation and control by law as common carriers... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1250 pages
...go; and that the only redress against these arbitrary legislative edicts was, "for protection against abuses by legislatures the people must resort to the polls, not to the courts." According to this, if the owner of a. water mill should have the stream which turns it diverted by... | |
| John Innes Clark Hare - Constitutional law - 1888 - 764 pages
...a power which may be abused; but that is no argument against its existence. For protection against abuses by legislatures, the people must resort to the polls, not to the courts." i 110 US 317, 325. Such legislation may be eminently just as regards companies which have been chartered... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 1210 pages
...correct the wrong that has been done. The temptation should be firmly resisted. "For protection against abuses by Legislatures the people must resort to the polls, not to the courts." Munn v. Illinois, supra. It is gratifying to observe how promptly of late the Legislature has responded... | |
| Religion - 1889 - 708 pages
...constitutional restraints is shown by the observation of Chief Justice Waite : " For protection against abuses by legislatures the people must resort to the polls, not to the courts." In the Kansas case, an act was passed declaring that every place where intoxicating liquors were manufactured... | |
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