 In fact, it would seem, from the character of many of the cases before us, and the arguments made in them, that the clause under consideration is looked upon as a means of bringing to the test of the decision of this court the abstract opinions of every...  Supreme Court Reporter - Page 112by United States. Supreme Court - 1886Full view - About this book
 | Frederick Dumont Smith - Constitutional history - 1926 - 608 pages
...that the clause under consideration is looked upon as a means of bringing to the test of the decisions of this court the abstract opinions of every unsuccessful...legislation on which such a decision may be founded. If, therefore, it were possible to define what it is for a State to deprive a person of life, liberty... | |
 | Charles Evans Hughes - 1928 - 292 pages
...cases before us, and the arguments made in them, that the clause under consideration is looked upon as a means of bringing to the test of the decision of...legislation on which such a decision may be founded. If, therefore, it were possible to define what it is for a State to deprive a person of life, liberty... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1951 - 362 pages
...cases before us, and the arguments made in them, that the clause under consideration is looked upon as a means of bringing to the test of the decision of...legislation on which such a decision may be founded. If, therefore, it were possible to define what it is for a State to deprive a 201 Which the Court likewise... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1380 pages
...96 US 97, 104 [24: 616, 619], the 14th Amendment cannot be availed of "as a means of bringing to tbe test of the decision of this court the abstract opinions of every unsuccessful litigant in the state court of tbe justice of the decision against him, and of the merits of the legislation on... | |
 | Mississippi. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1024 pages
...to the test of a decision of this court the abstract opinion of every unsuccessful litigant in the state court of the justice of the decision against...legislation on which such a decision may be founded." WHITFIELD, CJ, delivered the opinion of the court. The primary object of ยง 3561, Code 1892, is to... | |
 | Virginia State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1905 - 324 pages
...this provision", and has been wearied into chiding the lawyers with having looked upon the clause "as a means of bringing to the test of the decision of...legislation on which such a decision may be founded". (Davidson vs. New Orleans 95 US 97; Missouri Pacific RR vs. Humes 115 US 512). The Court has never... | |
 | Myres S Mac Dougal, William Michael Reisman - Law - 1985 - 490 pages
...cases before us, and the arguments made in them, that the clause under consideration is looked upon as a means of bringing to the test of the decision of...every unsuccessful litigant in a State court of the j ustice of the decision against him, and of the merits of the legislation on which such a decision... | |
 | William E. Nelson - Political Science - 2009 - 284 pages
...cases before us, and the arguments made in them, that the clause under consideration is looked upon as a means of bringing to the test of the decision of...of every unsuccessful litigant in a State court." Litigants, according to Miller, were urging the Supreme Court to apply "principles of general constitutional... | |
 | David P. Currie - Law - 1992 - 518 pages
...misconception of the scope of this provision' ' : [I]t would seem . . . that the clause ... is looked upon as a means of bringing to the test of the decision of...of the legislation on which such a decision may be founded.60 Even if property had been taken without compensation, "it must be remembered that, when... | |
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