If, therefore, a statute purporting to have been enacted to protect the public health, the public morals, or the public safety, has no real or substantial relation to those objects, or is a palpable invasion of rights secured by the fundamental law, it... United States Supreme Court Reports - Page 450by United States. Supreme Court - 1918Full view - About this book
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 804 pages
...whenever they enter upon the inquiry whether the legislature had transcended the limits of its authority. If, therefore, a statute purporting to have been enacted...morals, or the public safety has no real or substantial relations to those objects, or is a palpable invasion of rights secured by the fundamental law, it... | |
| United States. Court of Claims, Audrey Bernhardt - Law reports, digests, etc - 1952 - 936 pages
...whenever they enter upon the inquiry whether the legislature has transcended the limits of its authority. If, therefore, a statute purporting to have been enacted...public safety, has no real or substantial relation Opinion of the Court to those objects, or is a palpable invasion of rights secured by the fundamental... | |
| Law - 1889 - 546 pages
...whenever they enter upon the inquiry whether the Legislature has transcended the limits of its anthority. If therefore a statute purporting to have been enacted...adjudge, and thereby give effect to the Constitution." Mugler v. Kansas, 123 US 623, 661. In Watertown v. Mayo the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, speaking... | |
| Law - 1890 - 548 pages
...whenever they enter upon the inquiry whether the Legislature has transcended the limits of its authority. If therefore a statute purporting to have been enacted...invasion of rights secured by the fundamental law, tt is the duty of the conrts to so adjudge, and thereby give effect to the Constitution." 123 US 661.... | |
| Law - 1892 - 582 pages
...government, or violate rights secured by the Constitntion of the United States. * * * If a statnte purporting to have been enacted to protect the public health, the public morals or the public safety * * * is a palpable invasion of rights secured by the fundamental law, it is the dnty of the courts... | |
| Law - 1920 - 516 pages
...therefore, the statute purporting to have been enacted to protect the public health or public morals or public safety has no real or substantial relation...secured by the fundamental law, it is the duty of the Court so to adjudge, and thereby give effect to the Constitution." I have contented myself with referring... | |
| R. H. Andrews - Medicine - 1899 - 422 pages
...person within its jurisdiction. " Again, in Maybury vs. Madison (Cranch, '37, 167) the Court said: "If, therefore, a statute purporting to have been...health, the public morals or the public safety has no substantial relations to these effects, or is a palpable invasion of rights secured by the fundamental... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 2268 pages
...have been enacted to protect the public morals has no real or substantial relation to that object, or is a palpable invasion of rights secured by the...adjudge, and thereby give effect to the Constitution. [Ed. Note. — For cases In point, see Cent Dig. vol. 10, Constitutional Law, § 148.J 8. SA.UE —... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 1878 pages
...whenever they enter upon the inquiry whether the legislature has transcended the limits of its authority. If, therefore, a statute purporting to have been enacted...health, the public morals, or the public safety has no roal or substantial relation to those objects, or is a palpable invasion of rights secured by the fundamental... | |
| Tennessee Bar Association - Bar associations - 1913 - 282 pages
...the State. There are, of necessity, limits beyond which legislation cannot rightfully go. **»****# If, therefore, a statute purporting to have been enacted...adjudge, and thereby give effect to the Constitution." In my opinion, under the fundamental law of the land, a Railroad may run its engines, and have them... | |
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