 | Confederate States of America - 1893 - 852 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Brinton Coxe - Constitutional law - 1893 - 446 pages
...committed to writing ; if these lim"its may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be " restrained \ The distinction between a government with "limited..."and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obli" gation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that "the constitution controls any legislative... | |
 | Confederate States of America - 1893 - 852 pages
...be passed by those intended to be restrained ? The distinction between a government with limited ami unlimited powers is abolished, if those limits do...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... | |
 | Colorado. Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 670 pages
...ordinance that "public welfare and safety require" an act to be done is not conclusive upon the judiciary. Courts are not bound by mere forms, nor are they to be misled by mere pretenses. J6. 13. SAME—LIMITATION UPON.—A city council cannot under its police power to promote public health,... | |
 | Medicine - 1894 - 228 pages
...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 acts allowed are of equal obligation. The courts arc not bound by mere forms, nor are they to be misled by mere pretences. They are at liberty — indeed,... | |
 | James Bradley Thayer - Constitutional law - 1894 - 470 pages
...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...unlimited powers is abolished, if those limits do not confme the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation.... | |
 | William John Tossell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 748 pages
...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...prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation!' " The question then is, does Sec. 27 of this Workmen's Compensation act violate the constitutional guaranty... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1052 pages
...of the state. There are, of necessity, limits beyond which legislation cannot rightfully go. • * * The courts are not bound by mere forms, nor are they...by mere pretenses. They are at liberty — indeed, under a solemn duty— to look at the substance of things whenever they enter upon the inquiry whether... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denny, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1909 - 494 pages
...committed to writing, if these limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained V The distinction between a government with limited...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... | |
 | Eli Foster Ritter - Christianity and law - 1896 - 246 pages
...of Mugler vs. Kansas, 123 US, 205, has defined the duty of the court in such a case as follows : ' ' The courts are not bound by mere forms, nor are they to be-misled by mere pretenses. They are at liberty, indeed, are under a solemn duty, to look at the substance... | |
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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 abolished,... 
