 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, Conway Robinson, Peachy Ridgway Grattan, James Muscoe Matthews, George W. Hansbrough, Martin Parks Burks - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 1020 pages
...of the courts to resolve all doubts in favor of the constitutionality of the act of the Legislature. "Plenary power in the Legislature for all purposes...rule. A prohibition to exercise a particular power is an exception. In inquiring, therefore, whether a given statute is constitutional, it is for those who... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1908 - 828 pages
...the legislature the whole law-making powers of the State which they did not expressly or irnpliedly withhold. Plenary power in the legislature, for all...government, is the rule. A prohibition to exercise a particulaj power is an exception."19 lt must not, however, be supposed from these dicta that even if... | |
 | William Mills Ivins, Herbert Delavan Mason - Interstate commerce - 1908 - 1242 pages
...— McOwigan v. Wilmington & W*. R. Co., 95 NC 428. [24] Burden of proving Invalidity of rtatntei. Plenary power in the legislature for all purposes of civil government is the rule. In inquiring whether a given statute is constitutional, it is for those who question its validity to... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1911 - 724 pages
...opposition of New York's mayor on behalf of the inhabitants, that this act was constitutional and valid. "Plenary power in the legislature for all purposes of civil government is the rule" was the language of the court. But later, in 1873, when "the inherent right of the people" of a city... | |
 | William Byrd Powell, Robert Safford Newton - Medicine, Eclectic - 1911 - 724 pages
...opposition of New York's mayor on behalf of the inhabitants, that this act was constitutional and valid. "Plenary power in the legislature for all purposes of civil government is the rule" was the language of the court. But later, in 1873, when "the inherent right of the people" of a city... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1172 pages
...Chief Justice Denlo, speaking for the court, said: 'The people, in framing the Constitution, commit fed to the legislature the whole lawmaking power of the...rule. A prohibition to exercise a particular power Is an exception." Counsel for appellant cite certain decisions to the effect that taxes for municipal... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Hiram Edward Sickels - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 796 pages
...72.) In the language of Chief Judge DENIO, in People ex rel. Wood v. Draper, (15 NY 532, at p. ;"i43>, "plenary power in the legislature for all purposes of civil government is the rule." It must I>e conceded that the legislative body is, impliedly, restricted by the judiciary article from... | |
 | Texas. Legislature. House, Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives - Law - 1914 - 580 pages
...discretion." (Cooléy 's Const. Lim., 6th Ed., 204.) Continuing further he quotes with approval the following: "The people in framing the Constitution committed...for all purposes of civil government is the rule. Л prohibition to exercise a particular power is an exception. In inquiring therefore whether a given... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1919 - 792 pages
..."The people, in framing the Constitution, committed to the legislature the whole law-making powers of the State which they did not expressly or impliedly...is the rule. A prohibition to exercise a particular j>ower is an exception." 1 Redfield, r .-.!., in 27 Vermont Reports, pi 142, quoted l>y Cooloy, Corutit.... | |
 | Texas. Legislature. Senate - Legislative journals - 1914 - 484 pages
...approval the following: "The people in framing the Constitution committed to the Legislature the whols law-making power of the State which they did not expressly...for all purposes of civil government is the rule. Л. probibition to exercise a particular power is an exception. In inquiring therefore whether a given... | |
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In the first place, the people, in framing the Constitution, committed to the legislature the whole law-making power of the State, which they did not expressly or impliedly withhold. Plenary power in the legislature for all purposes of civil government... 
