...Pennsylvania, speaking for the Court, said : "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." Chancellor Waties, of South Carolina, said, using language which it would be well indeed for the judges...

...of 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." See also State v. Layton, 160 Mo. 478, 62 L.RA. 163, 83 Am. St. Rep. 487, 61 SW 171 ; also Adams v....

...1811, who said: "For weighty reasons it has been assumed as a principle in constitutional law by the Supreme Court of the United States, by this court,...with provisions of the Constitution of the United States expressly limiting the power of the States, but even in maintaining the supremacy of the Federal...

...court of reputation in the United States, 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.14 What are these "weighty reasons" to which Justice Tilghman alluded? It is not enough to assert...

...the rational basis test set forth by Thayer (according to which an act of the legislature should not be declared invalid unless the violation of the constitution...manifest as to leave no room for reasonable doubt ) would indeed provide only minimum protection to the individual against encroachments by the legislative...

...of administration" which has guided the exereise of judicial review: laws will not be declared void "unless the violation of the constitution is so manifest as to leave no room for reasonable doubt." He collects numerous texts from the early history of judicial review which indicate the prevailing...

...of administration" which has guided the exercise of judicial review: laws will not be declared void "unless the violation of the constitution is so manifest as to leave no room for reasonable doubt." He collects numerous texts from the early history of judicial review which indicate the prevailing...

...limited their authority sharply. It could only be exercised in extreme cases, as a last resort when 'the violation of the constitution is so manifest as to leave no room for reasonable doubt'. (Chief Justice Thilgman in 1811). Marshall also expressed such reticence in Fletcher v. Peck: 'The...

...for the rule of clear mistake—that "an Act of the legislature... [ought] not to be declared void unless the violation of the constitution is so manifest as to leave no room for reasonable doubt." 2 Thayer's rule of clear mistake was not founded on the idea that only manifestly abusive legislative...

...is the uttering of the consecrated phrase that a court should not invalidate a legislative act ' " unless the violation of the constitution is so manifest as to leave no room for reasonable doubt"'.* This principle, now universally admitted, in fact destroys the bye-laws analogy. It ' the constitution...