 It must be remembered that, for weighty reasons, it has been assumed as a principle, in construing constitutions, by the Supreme Court of the United States, by this court, and by every other court of reputation in the United States, that an act of the...  Transactions - Page 128by Maryland State Bar Association - 1911Full view - About this book
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 904 pages
...sale for food or drink, the rule of construction that legislative acts should not be declared void "unless the violation of the Constitution is so manifest as to leave no room for reasonable doubt," required the test of constitutionality to be that "if it be an article so universally conceded to be... | |
 | J. C. Wells, Edward Warren Hines, Frank L. Wells, Horace C. Brannin, William Cromwell, William Jefferson Chinn, Walter G. Chapman, William Pope Duvall Bush, Finlay Ferguson Bush, R. G. Higdon, Thomas Robert.. McBeath - Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1272 pages
...legislature can either regulate or prohibit it. The act of the legislature is not to be declared void unless the violation of the Constitution is so manifest as to leave no room for reasonable doubts.'' Cooley's Constitutional Limitations, 6th edition, and numerousopinions. ) It was decided... | |
 | Railroad law - 1904 - 1014 pages
...steam railroads alone." In a word, we hold that an act of the Legislature is not to be declared void unless the violation of the Constitution is so manifest as to leave no room for doubt. Ogden v. Saunders, 12 Wheat. 213, 6 L. Ed. 606; Sinking Fund Cases, 90, US 700, 25 L. Ed. 496;... | |
 | James Parker Hall - Constitutional law - 1910 - 438 pages
...other court of reputation and influence, that an act of the legislature is not to be declared void unless the violation of the constitution is so manifest as to leave no room for reasonable doubt" (6). The United States Supreme Court has said: "This declaration should never be made except in clear... | |
 | Wisconsin. Attorney General's Office - Attorneys general's opinions - 1910 - 944 pages
...court of reputation in the United States, that an act of the legislature is not to be deciared void unless the violation of the Constitution is so manifest as to leave no room for reasonable doubt:' and. in Fletcher v. Peck, Chief Justice Marshall said. 'It s not on slight implication and vague conjecture... | |
 | Missouri. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 874 pages
...of the validity of an act ; and courts will not declare a statute to be unconstitutional unless its violation of the Constitution is so manifest as to leave no room for reasonable doubt. State ex rel. v. Fort, 210 Mo. 526; State v. Tower, 185 Mo. 102; Ex parte Loring, 178 Mo. 194; State... | |
 | James De Witt Andrews - Law - 1911 - 442 pages
...other court of reputation and influence, that an act of the legislature is not to be declared void unless the violation of the constitution is so manifest as to leave no room for reasonable doubt" (6). The United States Supreme Court has said: "This declaration should never be made except in clear... | |
 | William Wheeler Thornton - Drugs - 1912 - 1168 pages
...our Constitution, that the act of the Legislature or municipal assembly is not to be declared void unless the violation of the Constitution is so manifest as to leave no room for reasonable doubt."1 "The constitutionality articles was that dairy butter had butter." (Extract from opinion in... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1544 pages
...the United States, that an act of the legislature is not to be declared void unless the violation or the Constitution is so manifest as to leave no room for reasonable doubt;" and, in Fletcher v. Peck, 6 Cranch, 87, Chief Justice Marshall said: "It is not on slight implication... | |
 | Frederick Newton Judson - Courts - 1913 - 288 pages
...constitution they are expounding. An act of the legislature, therefore, is not to be declared void unless the violation of the constitution is so manifest as to leave no room for reasonable doubt. It is an anomaly, therefore, and in the popular mind difficult to reconcile with this principle that legislative... | |
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