 Every possible presumption is in favor of the validity of a statute, and this continues until the contrary is shown beyond a rational doubt. One branch of the government cannot encroach on the domain of another without danger. The safety of our institutions...  United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court - Page 28by United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1884Full view - About this book
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 706 pages
...congress is unconstitutional] should never be made except in a clear case. Every possible presumption is in favor of the validity of a statute, and this continues...degree on a strict observance of this salutary rule." The great Chief Justice Shaw, in Wellington et al., Petitioners, 16 Pick., 87 (1834), speaking for... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 598 pages
...to the constitution." In the Sinking Fund Cases the same court said: "Every possible presumption is in favor of the validity of a statute, and this continues...in no small degree on a strict observance of this statutory rule." 99 US 700; Powell v. Pennsylvania, 127 US 678. In this last case the constitutionality... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 2090 pages
...raising a doubt." Legal Tender Cases, 12 Wall. 4.57, 531, 20 L. Ed. 287. "Every possible presumption is in favor of the validity of a statute, and this continues...until the contrary is shown beyond a rational doubt. * * * The safety of our institutions depends in no small degree on a strict observance of this salutary... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 1036 pages
...States; but this declaration should never be made except In a clear case. Every possible presumption Is in favor of the validity of a statute, and this continues...degree on a strict observance of this salutary rule." I regard these words as particularly applicable to the dealings by this court with the proceedings... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1230 pages
...presumption is in favor of the validity of the statute until the contrary is shown beyond a reasonable doubt. One branch of the government cannot encroach...degree on a strict observance of this salutary rule. Sinking Fund Cases, 99 US 727, 25 L. Ed. 504 ; Livingston v. Darlington, 101 US 407, 25 L. Ed. 1015;... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1148 pages
...separate, Independent and coordinate departments, the legislative, the executive and the judicial. One branch of the government cannot encroach on the...degree on a strict observance of this salutary rule. It Is not one of the functions of a court to make up the records of the proceedings of legislative... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1909 - 764 pages
...the view expressed by Chief Justice Waite in the Sinking Fund Cases : " Every possible presumption is in favor of the validity of a statute, and this continues...until the contrary is shown beyond a rational doubt." ' The courts still repeat expressions of this character, but it is undoubtedly true that they have... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1134 pages
...CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (§ 48*)— CONSTRUCTION IN FAVOR OF CONSTITUTIONALITY. Every possible presumption is in favor of the validity of a statute, and this continues until the contrary ig shown beyond a rational doubt. [Ed. Note.— For other cases, see Constitutional Law, Cent Dig.... | |
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