 Amendment, broad and comprehensive as it is, nor any other amendment was designed to interfere with the power of the state, sometimes termed its "police power," to prescribe regulations to promote the health, peace, morals, education, and good order of...  Supreme Court Reporter - Page 2631917Full view - About this book
 | Social Science - 420 pages
...would declare that this regulation did not deprive the petitioner of his equal rights under the law: From the very necessities of society, legislation...character, having these objects in view, must often be had in certain districts, such as for draining marshes and irrigating arid plains. Special burdens... | |
 | Timothy P. Duane - Nature - 1999 - 627 pages
...State, sometimes termed its police power, to prescribe regulations to promote the health, peace, morals, education, and good order of the people, and to legislate...State, develop its resources, and add to its wealth and prosperity."34 As I demonstrated earlier, the "wealth and prosperity" of the Sierra Nevada now depends... | |
 | Julie Lavonne Novkov - Law - 2009 - 333 pages
...the police power allowed the states "to prescribe regulations to promote the health, peace, morals, education, and good order of the people, and to legislate...its resources, and add to its wealth and prosperity" (Barbier v. Connolly, 31). In 1888, the Court declared that the police power allowed for the protection... | |
 | John W. Johnson - Law - 2001 - 536 pages
...great range of the state's powers "to prescribe the regulations to promote the health, peace, morals, education and good order of the people, and to legislate...industries of the state, develop its resources and add to the wealth and prosperity." In the famous 1877 Granger case of Munn v. Illinois, one of the first cases... | |
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