 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 774 pages
...statutes, and ordinances, either with penalties or without, not repugnant to the constitution, as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of the commonwealth, and of the subjects of the same. It is much easier to perceive and realize the existence and sources... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 728 pages
...statutes or ordinances, either with penalties or without, not repugnant to the constitution, as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of the commonwealth and the subjects of the same." It extends to the prohibition of anything which in the reasonable exercise... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1862 - 670 pages
...statutes and ordinances, either with penalties or without, not repugnant to the constitution, as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of the commonwealth, and of the subjects of the same. It is much easier to perceive and realize the existence and sources... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 1154 pages
...with penalties or without, so as the same be not repugnant or contrary to the constitution, as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of the Commonwealth. A large discretion is thus given to the legislature to judge what the welfare of the Commonwealth may... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives - Massachusetts - 1866 - 708 pages
...of chapter I. of the Constitution, is limited by the provision that they shall be such laws "as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of the Commonwealth." Every member, therefore, as a member also of the body politic, has an interest in every constitutional... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1868 - 776 pages
...directions and restrictions (so as the same be not repugnant or contrary to the constitution), as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of the Commonwealth, and of the subjects thereof. No one imagines that, under this general authority, the legislature could... | |
 | Law - 1894 - 922 pages
...authority to make all manner of wholesome and reasonable laws not repugnant to the Constitution, which they shall judge to be for the" good and welfare of the Commonwealth, and " to name and settle annually, or provide by fixed laws, for the naming and settling all civil... | |
 | Law - 1885 - 544 pages
...statutes and ordinances, either with penalties or without, not repugnant to the Constitution, as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of the Commonwealth, and of the subjects of the same. It is much easier to perceive aud realize the existence and sources... | |
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The power we allude to is rather the police power, the power vested in the legislature by the constitution, to make, ordain, and establish all manner of wholesome and reasonable laws, statutes, and ordinances, either with penalties or without, not repugnant... 
