 | Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 970 pages
...Legislature the whole law-making power of the State, which they did not, expressly or impliedly, withhold. Plenary power in the Legislature for all purposes...rule. A prohibition to exercise a particular power is the exception. In inquiring, therefore, whether a given statute is constitutional it is for those who... | |
 | United States - 1857 - 598 pages
...administration of States. ' ' Judge Denio, on the other hand, and the five concurrent judges affirm that "plenary power in the Legislature, for all purposes of civil government, is the rule /" and " a prohibition to exercise a particular power, the exception." This doctrine is also contained... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 674 pages
...legislature the whole law making power of the state, which they did not expressly or impliedly withhold. Plenary power in the legislature for all purposes...question its validity to show that it is forbidden. I do not mean that the power must be expressly inhibited, for there The People against Simeon Draper.... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1868 - 776 pages
...legislature the whole law-making power of the State, which they did not expressly or impliedly withhold. Plenary power in the legislature, for all purposes...question its validity to show that it is forbidden. I do not mean that the power must be expressly inhibited, for there are but few positive restraints... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 802 pages
...powers, except such as are found either in the constitution of the United States, or of the State itself. Plenary power in the legislature, for all purposes...prohibition to exercise a particular power is an exception: Cooley's Const. Lim. 88, 89; People v. Draper, 15 .N. Y. 543. We do not, however, hold the power of... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 904 pages
...legislature the whole law-making power of the State, which they did not expressly or impliedly withhold. Plenary power in the legislature, for all purposes...question its validity to show that it is forbidden. I do not mean that the power must be expressly inhibited, for there are but few positive restraints... | |
 | Law - 1874 - 844 pages
...Legislature the whole law-making power of the State, which they did not expressly or impliedly withhold. Plenary power in the legislature for all purposes...question its validity to show that it is forbidden. I do not mean that the power must be expressly inhibited, for there are but few positive restraints... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 518 pages
...legislature the whole law-making power of the state, which they did uot expressly or impliedly withhold. Plenary power in the legislature for all purposes...question its validity to show that it is forbidden." (People v. Draper, 15 NY 543; see also Bank of Chenango v. Brown, 26 NY 469.) There is nothing in all... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 934 pages
..."plenary power in the legis-. lature is the rule. A prohibition to exercise a particular power is the exception. In inquiring, therefore, whether a given statute is constitutional, it is for those who questton its validity to show that it is forbidden." Those who maintain the nnconstitutionality of... | |
 | United States. Comptroller of the Treasury - Finance, Public - 1882 - 668 pages
...explicit terms. (Potter's Dwarris, Stat., 210.) " Plenary power in the legislature for all purposes is the rule. A prohibition to> exercise a particular...therefore,, whether a given statute is constitutional [authorized] it is for those who* question its validity to show that it is forbidden." (People v. Draper,.... | |
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In the first place, the people, in framing the Constitution, committed to the legislature the whole law-making power of the State, which they did not expressly or impliedly withhold. Plenary power in the legislature for all purposes of civil government... 
