 The legislature cannot delegate its power to make a law ; but it can make a law to delegate a power to determine some fact or state of things upon which the law makes, or intends to make, its own action depend.  Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan - Page 467by Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, James M. Reasoner, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, Richard W. Cooper - 1912Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 770 pages
...to things future and impossible to fully know."*[_The proper distinction the court said was this : " The legislature cannot delegate its power to make...determine some fact or state of things upon which the law makes, or intends to make, its own action depend. To deny this would be to stop the wheels of government^... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 1020 pages
...legislative power to the plaintiff. Justice Agnew, in Locke's Appeal, 72 Pa. St. 491, 13 Am. Rep. 716, says: "The legislature cannot delegate its power to make...determine some fact or state of things upon which the law makes or intends to make its own action depend. To deny this would be to stop the wheels of government."... | |
 | Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer - Referendum - 1893 - 240 pages
...while the Legislature could not delegate the legislative power, it could enact a law to delegate the power to determine some fact or state of things upon which the validity of the law may depend, which fact or state of things may be a vote of the people. Michigan... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 956 pages
...except in respect to certain questions of local concern. Bradshate v. Lankfirrd, 73 Md. 428, 11: 582 34. The Legislature cannot delegate its power to make...determine some fact or state of things upon which the law makes, or intends to make, its own action depend. Port Royal Min. Co. v. Hagood, 30 SC 519, 3: 841... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 916 pages
...or to things future, or impossible to know ;" and it was said that the proper distinction is this: "The legislature cannot delegate its power to make...determine some fact or state of things upon which the law makes, or intends to make, its own action to depend." And accordingly the time when the act shall take... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 1164 pages
...the act is to operate in one way or another? * * * Then the true distinction, I conceive, is this: The legislature cannot delegate its power to make...determine some fact or state of things upon which the law makes or intends to make its own action depend. To deny this would be to stop the wheels of government.... | |
 | William John Tossell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 924 pages
...establish municipal corporations and to enlarge or contract their boundaries is a legislative power. "The legislature cannot delegate its power to make a law; but it can make a law to delegate power to determine some fact or state of things upon which the law makes, or intends to make, its own... | |
 | Nevada. Legislature - 1897 - 818 pages
...accomplishing the object, or doing the thing understandingly. ' Uphnm vs. Supervisors, 8 Col. 378, 384. " 'The Legislature cannot delegate its power to make...determine some fact or state of things upon which the law makes or intends to make its action depend. To deny this would be to stop the wheels of government.... | |
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