 It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the integrity, and the patriotism of the legislative body, by which any law is passed, to presume in favor of its validity, until its violation of the constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt.  Reports of Civil and Criminal Cases Decided by the Court of Appeals of ... - Page 219by Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, William Littell, Alexander Keith Marshall - 1921Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 444 pages
...my estimation, be a satisfactory vindicatiouof it. It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the integrity and the patriotism of the legislative body,...constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt. This has always been the language of this court, when that subject has called for its decision ; and... | |
 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 840 pages
...said the United States Supreme Court in Ogden v. Saunders, 12 Wheat. 213, 270, "due to the wisdom, the integrity and the patriotism of the legislative 'body,...presume in favor of its validity, until its violation is proved beyond all reasonable doubt." Whether this immunity from collateral attack is so intimately... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1827 - 682 pages
...estimation, be a satisfactory vindication of it. It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the integrity, and the patriotism of the legislative body, by which any law is passed, to presume in favour of its validity, until its violation of the constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt.... | |
 | Maryland - Bankruptcy - 1831 - 256 pages
...estimation, be a satisfactory vindication of it. It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the integrity, and the patriotism of the legislative body, by which any law is passed, to presume in favour of its validity, until its violation of the constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt.... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...estimation, be a satisfactory vindication of it. It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the integrity, and the patriotism of the legislative body...constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt. This has always been the language of this court, when 12 Wh. 270. that subject has called for its decision... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 970 pages
...contrary is shown. Sears vs. Cottrell, 5 Mich., 259. "It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the integrity and the patriotism of the legislative body...law is passed to presume in favor of its validity." Ogden vs. Saunders, 12 Wheat., 270; Cooley's Const. Lim., 183. It might be superfluous to attempt to... | |
 | 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 - 1891 - 780 pages
...As was said in Ogden v. Sounders, 12 Wheat. 270: "It is but a decent respect, due to the wisdom, the integrity, and the patriotism of the legislative body...constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt." The essential provisions of this law are as follows: 1. All ballots must be of the same width, length,... | |
 | 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 - 1884 - 754 pages
...rule in Ogden v. Saundera 12 Wheat. 270 says : " It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the integrity, and the patriotism of the legislative body, by which any law is passed, to presume in favour of its validity, until its violation of the constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt."... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 824 pages
...estimation, be a satisfactory vindication of it. It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the integrity, and the patriotism of the legislative body...constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt. This has always been the language of this court, when that subject has called for its decision ; and... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1868 - 776 pages
...estimation, be a satisfactory vindication of it. It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the integrity, and the patriotism of the legislative body...of the constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt."2 The constitutionality of a law, then, is to be presumed, because the legislature, which was... | |
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