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...the United States. He had intimated, indeed, in Fletcher vs. Peck,-) that it might well be doubted whether the nature of society and of government does not prescribe some limit to the legislative power ; but he nowhere intimates that the Constitution prohibits the States...

...nature of society and of government do not prescribe some limits to the legislative power; and he asks, "if any be prescribed, where are they to be found,...property of an individual, fairly and honestly acquired, ma}' be seized without compensation?" It is nowhere intimated in that opinion that a state statute...

...shall be the will of the legislature so to exert it." And he said again : " It may well be doubted whether the nature of society and of government does...and if any be prescribed, where are they to be found it the property of an individual fairly and honestly acquired may be seized without compensation ?...

...property should be held sacred: WiUdnaon v. Leland et al.,2 Pet. 657. " And it may well be doubted whether the nature of society and of government does...prescribe some limits to the legislative power; and if any can be prescribed, where are they to be found, if the property of an individual, fairly and honestly...

...prescribe some limits to the legislative power; and he asks, if any be prescribed, where are they to bo found if the property of an individual, fairly and...honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation? It is nowhere intimated in that opinion that a state statute which divests a vested right is repugnant...

..."Rights of Things" as a mode of transferring property, bk. Ill, chap. 20. 106 "It may well be doubted whether the nature of society and of government does...honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation?" Marshall, CJ, in Fletcher v. Peck, 6 Cranch, 87. 107 157 US 429, 534. Compare Blackstone: "So great...

..." It may well be doubted whether the nature of society and government does not prescribe some limit to the legislative power; and if any be prescribed,...honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation?" Marshall, CJ, in Fletcher v. Peck, 6 Cranch, 135. "The fundamental maxims of free government seem to...

...under exist, ing American institutions. It is, indeed, occasionally declared that " it may be doubted whether the nature of society and of government does...and if any be prescribed, where are they to be found ?" So Mr. Justice Chase, of the Federal Supreme Court, declared : "I cannot subscribe to the omnipotence...

...society and government does not prescribe some limits to the legislative power ; and if any are to be prescribed, where are they to be found if the property...be seized without compensation? To the legislature aJJ legislative power is granted ; but the question whether the act of transferring the property of...