...deeper purposes of our system of government. In this connection Chief Justice Marshall has said that "it may well be doubted whether the nature of society and of government does noj prescribe some limits to the legislative power." 1J Accordingly it has been said that laws may...

...Fletcher v. Peck, involving an interference by a state legislative act with vested property rights, said: "It may well be doubted whether the nature of society...honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation ?"*• The general principle that rights vested under a contract are beyond legislative attack is strongly...

...unquestionably void." In Fletcher vs. Peck, 6 Cranch. 87, Chief Justice Marshall speaks as follows: "It may well be doubted, whether the nature of society...honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation?" I am not unmindful of the fact that these are utterances of ancient law, having both been written more...

...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? Now, I read from page 137: Since, then, in fact, a grant ls n contract executed, the obligation of...

...case of Fletcher v. Peek, 6 Cranch, 135, 141, 3 L. Ed. 162, referred to such void acts. Marshall said: "It may well be doubted whether the nature of society...not prescribe some limits to the legislative power." Johnson said : "I do not hesitate to declare that a state does not possess the power of revoking Its...

...republican governments.1 Similar expressions run through our Federal cases even to the present time. "It may well be doubted whether the nature of society...not prescribe some limits to the legislative power * * *," says Mr. Chief Justice Marshall in 1810,2 and in 1874 Mr. Justice Miller insists that — It...

...often heard in courts of justice." "It may well be added," said the same great judge (6 Cranch. 135), "whether the nature of society and of government does not prescribe some limits to legislative power: and. if any be prescribed, where are they to be found, if the property of an individual,...

...public benefit, if the consequences of his acts are beyond remedy. The Chief Justice further says : "It may well be doubted whether the nature of society...honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation?" Compensation was provided for in the legislative enactment nullifying the sale, and it is, to say the...

...Chief Justice Marshall in Fletcher v. Peck, 6 Cranch, 136, 3 L. Ed. 162, would be significant. He said: "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...

...Report, 114. * Ham v. MeClaws (S. Car.), 1 Bay, 93,96. '• Calder v. Bull (1798), 3 Dallas, 386, 388. "it may well be doubted whether the nature of society...does not prescribe some limits to the legislative powers." 7 Justice Johnson in the same 'case of Fletcher v. Peck followed Marshall's doubt with an...