 It may well be doubted whether the nature of society and of government does not prescribe some limits to the legislative power; and if any be prescribed, where are they to be found, if the property of an individual, fairly and honestly acquired, may be...  Harvard Law Review - Page 2371914Full view - About this book
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1901 - 728 pages
...be determined by the nature of the power on which it is founded." " It may well be doubted wbether the nature of society and of government does not prescribe some limits to the legislative power * * *. '• To the legislature all legislative power is granted ; * * * How far the power of giving... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1698 pages
...legitimate, is rendered so by a power applicable to the case of every individual in the community. It may well be doubted whether the nature of society and of government docs not prescribe some limits to the legislative power; and, if any be proscribed, where are they... | |
 | Law - 1902 - 548 pages
...power on which it is founded. And in Fletcher vs Peck (6 Cranch 135), Mr. Chief Justice Marshall said : "It may well be doubted whether the nature of society...not prescribe some limits to the legislative power. * * * "To the legislature all legislative power ls granted; * * * How far the power of giving the law... | |
 | Henry Osborn Taylor - Corporation law - 1902 - 1002 pages
...acquire no rights or further powers over a citizen through contract, or through the assumption 1 " It may well be doubted whether the nature of society and of government does not prescribe some limite to the legislative power; and if any be prescribed, where are they to be found if the property... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1903 - 832 pages
...legitimate, is rendered so by a power applicable to the case of every individual in the community. It may well be doubted whether the nature of society...honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation ? ' To the Legislature all legislative power is granted; but the question, whether the act of transferring... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1903 - 828 pages
...legitimate, is rendered so by a power applicable to the case of every individual in the community. It may well be doubted whether the nature of society...fairly and honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation?i To the Legislature all legislative power is granted ; but the question, whether the... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Charles Frederick Remy, George Washington Self, Philip Zoercher, William H. Adams, Mrs. Edward Franklin White, Emma Mary May - Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 890 pages
...made by Chief Justice Marshall in Fletcher v. Pack (1810), 6 Cranch 87, at -page 135, (3 L. Ed. 162) : "It may well be doubted, whether the nature of society...not prescribe some limits to the legislative power." That doubt has received affirmative recognition by the courts under varying circumstances, but we are... | |
 | John Marshall - Political Science - 1905 - 518 pages
...legitimate, is rendered so by a power applicable to the case of every individual in the community. It may well be doubted whether the nature of society...honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation ? ^ *To the legislature all legislative power is granted ; but the question, whether the act of transferring... | |
 | Simeon Eben Baldwin - Courts - 1905 - 428 pages
...was not necessary to decide whether the doctrine was sound. "It may well be doubted," he observed, '' whether the nature of society and of government does...honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation? To the legislature all legislative power is granted; but the question whether the act of transferring... | |
 | Burton Alva Konkle - Orators - 1905 - 562 pages
...Cranch, 87, Chief Justice Marshall says : " 'It may well be doubted whether the nature of society and government does not prescribe some limits to the legislative...honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation? To the Legislature all legislative power is granted, but the question whether the act of transferring... | |
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