 The protection against unwise or oppressive legislation within constitutional bounds is by an appeal to the justice and patriotism of the representatives of the people. If this fail, the people, in their sovereign capacity, can correct the evil, but courts...  The Southwestern Reporter - Page 3541897Full view - About this book
 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1002 pages
...this fail, the people in their sovereign capacity can correct the evil, but courts cannot assume their rights. The judiciary can only arrest the execution...statute when it conflicts with the constitution.* * * Any legislative act which does not encroach upon the powers apportioned to the other departments... | |
 | North American review - 1896 - 818 pages
...this fail, the people in their sovereign capacity can correct the evil, but courts cannot assume their rights. The judiciary can only arrest the execution...right, reason, and expediency with the lawmaking power. The question of the validity of a statute must always be one of legislative competency to enact it... | |
 | 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 - 1884 - 754 pages
...constitution give that authority.' " Cooley Con^t. Lim. 169, 171, 172, 182, and cases cited. This Court can only arrest the execution of a statute when it conflicts with the Constitution; and, after as careful an examination as I have been able to give to the question presented, I am compelled... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1857 - 650 pages
...power to arrest the execution except the judiciary, and that department can only do it when the law conflicts with the constitution. It cannot run a race...right, reason, and expediency with the lawmaking power. Herman v. The State, 4 Am. L. Reg. 34A.—Beebe v. The State, 6 Ind. R. 501. The great point of difficulty... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 720 pages
...people, "the people, in their sovereign capacity, can correct the evil, but courts cannot assume their rights. The judiciary can only arrest the execution...right, reason and expediency with the lawmaking power." (Cooley's Const. Lim. chap. 7, p. 236.) This court, in City of Chicago v. Bowman Dairy Co. 234 111.... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1868 - 776 pages
...the people in their sovereign capacity can correct the evil ; but courts cannot assume their rights.2 The judiciary can" only arrest the execution of a...right, reason, and expediency with the law-making power.3 Any legislative act which does not encroach upon the powers apportioned to the other departments... | |
 | South Carolina. Supreme Court, J. S. G. Richardson, Robert Wallace Shand, Cyprian Melanchthon Efird, William Hay Townsend, Duncan C. Ray, William Munro Shand - Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 614 pages
...which the matter becomes one about which reasonable minds may differ, the Court will not undertake to "run a race of opinions upon points of right, reason and expediency with the lawmaking power." Cooley Const. Lim. 236. The same principle is applied in determining the validity of classifications... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 904 pages
...sovereign capacity can correct the evil ; but courts cannot assume their rights.i The judiciary cau only arrest the execution of a statute when it conflicts...of right, reason, and expediency with the lawmaking power.2 Any legislative act which does not encroach upon tho powers apportioned to the other departments... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 914 pages
...the people in their sovereign capacity can correct the evil ; but courts cannot assume their rights.1 The judiciary can only arrest the execution of a statute...when it conflicts with the constitution. It cannot ruu a race of opinions upon points of right, reason, and expediency with the lawmaking power.2 Any... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1878 - 1032 pages
...the people in their sovereign capacity can correct the evil; but courts cannot assume their rights. 1 The judiciary can only arrest the execution of a statute...right, reason, and expediency with the lawmaking power. 2 Any legislative act which does not encroach upon the powers apportioned to the other departments... | |
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