 To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained ? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is...  Supreme Court Reporter - Page 2951888Full view - About this book
 | Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman - Antitrust law - 1900 - 642 pages
...exercise is clearly a judicial question." 2 Chief Justice Marshall said in Marburg v. Madison : 3 " The courts are not bound by mere forms, nor are they...by mere pretenses. They are at liberty — indeed they are under a solemn duty — to look at the substance of things whenever they enter upon the inquiry... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 648 pages
...restrained? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they...prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation." The wise men who framed the Constitution, and the patriotic people who adopted it, were unwilling to depend... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Colonies - 1901 - 196 pages
...restrained? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they...prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation." The wise men who framed the Constitution, and the patriotic people who adopted it, were unwilling to depend... | |
 | John Allen Shauck - John Marshall Day - 1901 - 26 pages
...restrained? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they...prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant... | |
 | Law - 1901 - 278 pages
...The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished, if those acts do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed,...prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the Constitution controls any legislative act repugnant... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry - 1901 - 946 pages
...beyond which legislation can not rightfully go. Then, a little farther down the page : The courts »re not bound by mere forms, nor are they to be misled...by mere pretenses. They are at liberty, indeed are nuder a solemn duty, to look at tbe substance of things whenever they enter upon an inquiry whether... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1901 - 1034 pages
...abolished, if those limits do not confine (a) 2 Bay, 38. (6) 1 Harr. & Johns. 236. (c) 1 Crunch, 137. tbe persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited, and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. If the Constitution does not control any legislative act repugnant to it, then the legislature may... | |
 | Hampton Lawrence Carson - Judges - 1902 - 414 pages
...restrained? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they...prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the Constitution controls any legislative act repugnant... | |
 | 1902 - 478 pages
...restrained ? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they...prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation." i Cr. 176. Across the intervening years, the answer is echoed back by Mr. Justice Gray:—"As the experience... | |
 | Stephen Mallory White, Leroy E. Mosher - United States - 1903 - 348 pages
...restrained? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they...prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. And in the same case it was also said : Questions in their nature political, or which are by the constitutional... | |
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