 | North American review - 1896 - 818 pages
...within the limits of the Constitution, is exclusively for the legislative department to determine ; and the moment a court ventures to substitute its own judgment for that of the Legislature, it passes beyond its legitimate authority and enters a field where it would be impossible to set limits... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1868 - 776 pages
...within their control, on the assumption that the legislature had disregarded justice or sound policy. The moment a court ventures to substitute its own...with power over the subject, that moment it enters 1 Goshen v. Stonington, 4 Conn. 225. upon a field where it is impossible to set limits to its authority,... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1871 - 846 pages
...within their control, on the assumption that the legislature had disregarded justice or sound policy. The moment a court ventures to substitute its own...legislature with power over the subject, that moment it [* l08] enters * upon a field where it is impossible to set limits to its authority, and where its... | |
 | Street-railroads - 1872 - 136 pages
...necessary and proper. As is said by the learned author from whose treatise we have before quoted : " The moment a court ventures to substitute its own...alone will measure the extent of its interference. The rule of law upon this subject appears to be, that except where the Constitution has imposed limits... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1872 - 854 pages
...necessary and proper. As is said by the learned author from whose treatise we have before quoted, " The moment a court ventures to substitute its own...is impossible to set limits to its authority, and wtere its discretion alone will measure the extent of its interference. The rule of law upon this subject... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 802 pages
...necessary and proper. As is said by the learned author, from whose treatise we have before quoted: "The moment a court ventures to substitute its own...power over the subject, that moment it enters upon a Geld where it is impossible to set limits to its authority, and where its discretion alone will measure... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 914 pages
...within their control, on the assumption that the legislature had disregarded justice or sound policy. The moment a court ventures to substitute its own...legislature with power over the subject, that moment it [* 168] enters * upon a field where it is impossible to set limits to its authority, and where its... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1878 - 1032 pages
...within their control, on the assumption that the legislature had disregarded justice or sound policy. The moment a court ventures to substitute its own...upon a field where it is impossible to set limits [* 168] to its authority, and where its discretion alone will measure the extent of its interference.... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1878 - 974 pages
...within their control, on the assumption that the legislature had disregarded justice or sound policy. The moment a court ventures to substitute its own...upon a field where it is impossible to set limits [* 168] to its authority, and where its discretion alone will measure the extent of its interference.2... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1880 - 426 pages
...within the limits of the Constitution, is exclusively for the legislative department to determine ; and the moment a court ventures to substitute its own judgment for that of the legislature, it passes beyond its legitimate authority, and enters a field where it would be impossible to set limits... | |
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The moment a court ventures to substitute its own judgment for that of the Legislature, in any case where the Constitution has vested the Legislature with power over the subject, that moment it enters upon a field where it is impossible to set limits... 
