But the object and end of all government is to promote the happiness and prosperity of the community by which it is established; and it can never be assumed that the government intended to diminish its power of accomplishing the end for which it was created. National Supremacy: Treaty Power Vs. State Power - Page 119by Edward Samuel Corwin - 1913 - 321 pagesFull view - About this book
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1392 pages
...the extent of our own powers, and how far the existing institutions are placed beyond our control. The object and end of all government is to promote...community by which it is established; and it can never be presumed that it ever intended to dimin ish its powers of accomplishing the end for which it was created.... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 696 pages
...speaking of the taxing power; which is of vital importance to the very existence of every government. But the object and end of all government is to promote...prosperity of the community by which it is established; &H it can never be assumed, that the government intended to diminish its power of accomplishing the... | |
| Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Riparian rights - 1847 - 492 pages
...granting the injunction, was delivered by Taney, CJ, and was grounded upon the consideration, that the end of all government is to promote the happiness...of the community, by which it is established ; and that it could never bo assumed, that the government intended to diminish its power of accomplishing... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1851 - 680 pages
...Bridge, 11 Peters, 547, I will adopt as the ablest argument that can be presented to your Honors : — " The object and end of all government is to promote...of accomplishing the end for which it was created. A state ought never to be presumed to surrender this power, because, like the taxing power, the whole... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1851 - 716 pages
...elder company had no redress. Chief Justice Taney, in delivering the opinion of the Court, said : " The object and end of all government, is to promote...of accomplishing the end for which it was created. And in a country like ours, free active and enterprising, continually advancing in numbers and wealth,... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 804 pages
...Justice Taney, speaking for the court, in Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge, 11 Pet. 420, 547: 'It can never be assumed that the government intended...of accomplishing the end for which it was created.' This is an elementary principle. In Chicago, etc., R. Co. v. Iowa, 94 US 155, Peik v. Railway Co.,... | |
| Law - 1849 - 604 pages
...promote tliu happiness and jiro?ptrity of the community by wh;di ;t :s established : and it can nerer be assumed that the government intended to diminish...of accomplishing the end for which it was created. And in a country like ours, free, active, and enterprising, continually advancing in numbers and wealth,... | |
| Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 688 pages
...thus laid down, is abundantly sustained by the authorities referred to in this decision. * « « t The object and end of all government, is to promote...of accomplishing the end for which it was created. And in a country like ours, free, active, and enterprising, continually advancing in numbers and wealth,... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional law - 1854 - 674 pages
...speaking of the taxing power; which is of vital importance to the very existence of every government. But the object and end of all government is to promote...of accomplishing the end for which it was created. And in a country like ours, free, active, and enterprising, continually advancing in numbers and wealth,... | |
| Joseph Kinnicut Angell, Thomas Durfee - Highway law - 1857 - 484 pages
...community by which it is established, and that it should never be assumed to be the intent of government to diminish its power of accomplishing the end for which it was created ; this was peculiarly so in this country, free, active and enterprising, and in which new channels... | |
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