 | Alden Bradford - Massachusetts - 1825 - 710 pages
...necessary support and defence of this government, they shall have full power and authority to levy proportionable and reasonable assessments, rates and...judge to be for the good and welfare of the state, nnd for the government and ordering thereof; provided nevertheless, they shall not have any power to... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 774 pages
...laws, statutes, and ordinances, either with penalties or without, not repugnant to the constitution, as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of the commonwealth, and of the subjects of the same. It is much easier to perceive and realize the existence... | |
 | EMORY WASHRURN - 1860 - 486 pages
...penalties or without (so as the same be not repugnant or contrary to the laws of the realm of England), as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of the Province, and for the governing and ordering thereof, and of the people inhabiting or who may inhabit... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 728 pages
...laws, statutes or ordinances, either with penalties or without, not repugnant to the constitution, as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of the commonwealth and the subjects of the same." It extends to the prohibition of anything which in the... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1862 - 670 pages
...laws, statutes and ordinances, either with penalties or without, not repugnant to the constitution, as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of the commonwealth, and of the subjects of the same. It is much easier to perceive and realize the existence... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 1154 pages
...either with penalties or without, so as the same be not repugnant or contrary to the constitution, as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of the Commonwealth. A large discretion is thus given to the legislature to judge what the welfare of the... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives - Massachusetts - 1866 - 708 pages
...section of chapter I. of the Constitution, is limited by the provision that they shall be such laws "as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of the Commonwealth." Every member, therefore, as a member also of the body politic, has an interest in every... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1868 - 776 pages
...ordinances, directions and restrictions (so as the same be not repugnant or contrary to the constitution), as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of the Commonwealth, and of the subjects thereof. No one imagines that, under this general authority, the... | |
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The power we allude to is rather the police power, the power vested in the legislature by the constitution, to make, ordain, and establish all manner of wholesome and reasonable laws, statutes, and ordinances, either with penalties or without, not repugnant... 
