 I cannot subscribe to the omnipotence of a State Legislature, or that it is absolute and without control ; although its authority should not be expressly restrained by the Constitution, or fundamental law of the State. The people of the United States...  American Quarterly Review - Page 1021830Full view - About this book
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...expressly restrained by the constitution, or fundamental law, of the state. The people of the United States erected their constitutions, or forms of government,...determine the nature and terms of the social compact ; and as they are the foundation of the legislative power, they will decide what are the proper objects of... | |
 | Florida. Legislature. House of Representatives - Florida - 1845 - 990 pages
...expressly restrained by the constitution or fundamental law of the State. The people of the United States erected their constitutions or forms of government,...to secure the blessings of liberty, and to protect iheir persons and property from violence. The purposes for which men enter into society, will determine... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...law of the state. He held that the people of the United States erected their constitution and form of government to establish justice, to promote the...violence. The purposes for which men enter into society determines the nature and terms of the social compact ; as they are the foundation of legislative powers,... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 778 pages
...be exprealy restrained by the Constitution or fundamental law of the State. The people of the United States erected their Constitutions or forms of government...protect their persons and property from violence. The pur§ 482. In each of the several States written Constitutions are now in existence, adopted by the... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 732 pages
...without control, although its authority should not be expressly restrained by the fundamental law. * * * The purposes for which men enter into society will...determine the nature and terms of the social compact; and, as they are the foundation of legislative power, they will decide what are the proper objects of it... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Alexander James Dallas, William Cranch, United States. Supreme Court, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 708 pages
...expressly restrained by the constitution, or fundamental law of the State. The people of the United States erected their constitutions, or forms of government,...to secure the blessings of liberty; and to protect Calder v. Bull. 3 D. their persons and property from violence. The purposes for which men enter into... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 884 pages
...well stated by Justice CHASE In CaMcrv. Bull, 3 Dull. 380. 'The people of the United States,' he says, 'erected their Constitutions or forms of government...determine the nature and terms of the social compact, and as they are the foundation of the legislative power, they will decide what are the proper objects of... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 890 pages
...expressly restrained by the constitution or fundamental law of the state. The people of the United States erected their constitutions or forms of government,...determine the nature and terms of the social compact; and as they are the foundation of the legislative power, they will decide what are the proper objects of... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1246 pages
...expressly restrained by the Constitution or fundamental law of the state. The people of the United States erected their Constitutions or forms of government...determine the nature and terms of the social compact, and, as they are the foundation of the legislative power, they will decide what are the proper objects of... | |
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