...supported by the actual decisions, is that stated by Mr. Justice Holmes in Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Makon: Government hardly could go on if to some extent values...limits, or the contract and due process clauses are gone.40 Although in that case the Justice stressed the extent to which the private right was abrogated,...

...questions here under discussion as is shown by the following applicable quotations from the opinion : "Government hardly could go on if, to some extent,...enjoyed under an implied limitation, and must yield to police power. But obviously the implied limitation must have its limits or the contract and due process...

...questions here under discussion as is shown by the following applicable quotations from the opinion : "Government hardly could go on if, to some extent,...could not be diminished without paying for every such chan.se in the general law. As long recognized, some values are enjoyed under an implied limitation,...

...whether a given governmental act is to be classified as a taking or as an exercise of police powers only. "Government hardly could go on if to some extent values...long recognized, some values are enjoyed under an applied limitation and must yield to the police power. But obviously the implied limitation must have...

...said, in the famous governmental takings case, Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Manon, Government could hardly go on if to some extent values incident to property...or the contract and due process clauses are gone." -v Thus, the greater the alteration of preexisting legal rights, the more suspect the retroactive legislation....

...are enjoyed under an implied limitation and must yield to the police power."— ' But he stressed: "obviously the implied limitation must have its limits,...the contract and due process clauses are gone."—' The limit drawn there, and still observed, was that when the government's actions substantially diminish...

...it. Mr. Justice Holmes., writing for the Court in Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon,-rr-' noted ^_ that "some values are enjoyed under an implied limitation and must yield to the police power."—' But he stressed: "obviously the implied limitation must have its limits, or the contract and due process...

...should be given "cost-free" notice and opportunity to change that policy if it is unconstitutional. Government hardly could go on if, to some extent, values incident to property and liberty could not be diminished somewhat without paying for every such change in the general law...

...compensation in all such circumstances would effectively compel the government to regulate by purchase. Government hardly could go on if to some extent values...without paying for every such change in the general law. The Takings Clause, therefore, preserves governmental power to regulate, subject only to the dictates...

...values are enjoyed under an implied limitation and must yield to the police power." — But he stressed: "obviously the implied limitation must have its limits,...or the contract and due process clauses are gone." — The limit drawn there, and still observed, was that when the government's actions substantially...