 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 990 pages
...the exercise of the power as are found in the constitution of the United States. The wisdom and the discretion of Congress, their identity with the people,...often rely solely, in all representative governments. The power of Congress, then, comprehends navigation, within the limits of every State in the Union... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 540 pages
...the constitution itself. " The wisdom and the discretion of congress, (it has been justly observed,) their identity with the people, and the influence,...elections, are, in this, as in many other instances, as, for example, that of declaring war, the sole restraints ; on this they have relied, to secure them... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 564 pages
...wisdom and the discretion of congress, (it has been justly observed,) their identity with the people, i and the influence, which their constituents possess...elections, are, in this, as in many other instances, as, for example, that of declaring war, the sole restraints; on this they have relied, to secure them-... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...the exercise of the power as are found in the constitution of the United States. (The wisdom and the discretion of congress, their identity with the people,...often rely solely, in all representative governments.^ 9 Wh. 196. The power of congress, then, comprehends navigation within the limits of every state in... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - Constitutional law - 1843 - 254 pages
...the constitution itself. ' The wisdom and the discretion of congress, (it has been justly observed,) their identity with the people, and the influence,...elections, are, in this, as in many other instances, as, for example, that of declaring war, the sole restraints ; on this they have relied, to secure them... | |
 | Lewis Cass - Harbors - 1856 - 96 pages
...the exercise of the power, as are found in the Constitution of the United States. The wisdom and the discretion of Congress, their identity with the people,...instances — as that, for example} of declaring war, (and to which may be added the expenditures for carrying it on,) the sole restraints on which they... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, Joel Tiffany - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 1050 pages
...extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the constitution The wisdom and discretion of Congress, their identity with the people,...which they have relied to secure them from its abuse. Opinion by HUNT, J. They are the restraints on which the people must often rely solely in all representative... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 876 pages
...but in the language or that illnstrious judge to whom I have already referred : The wisdom and the discretion of Congress, their identity with the people,...of declaring war, the sole restraints on which they [the people] have relied to secure them from its abuse. They are thfc restraints on which the people... | |
 | Law - 1901 - 510 pages
...and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the Constitution. * * * The wisdom and discretion of congress, their identity with the people,...the restraints on which the people must often rely on solely in all representative governments." So, too, in Johnson v. Mclntosh (8 Wheat. 543, 583),... | |
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The wisdom and the discretion of congress, their identity with the people, and the influence which their constituents possess at elections are in this, as in many other instances, — as that, for example, of declaring war, — the sole restraints on... 
