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" If, under a fair construction of the Constitution, grants are comprehended under the term contracts, is a grant from the State excluded from the operation of the provision ? Is the clause to be considered as inhibiting the State from impairing the obligation... "
Speech of James Madison Porter ...: In the Convention of Pennsylvania, on ... - Page 36
by James Madison Porter - 1837 - 59 pages
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Reports of Cases Determined in the Constitutional Court of South Carolina ...

South Carolina. Constitutional Court of Appeals, Henry Junius Nott, David James McCord - Law reports, digests, etc - 1820 - 664 pages
...as inhibiting the state from impairing the obligation of contracts .between two indi. vidiuals, but excluding from that inhibition contracts made with...itself: the words themselves contain no such distinction ; per Ch. J. Marshall, 6 Crunch 137. This is not the ordinary case of taking land for public use without...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama, Volume 3

Alabama. Supreme Court, George Noble Stewart - Law reports, digests, etc - 1835 - 526 pages
...excluded from the operation of the provision? Is the clause to be considered as inhibiting the State from impairing the obligation of contracts between...individuals, but as excluding from that inhibition contrasts made with itself? The words themselves contain no such distinctions. They are general and...
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Speeches and Forensic Arguments

Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...excluded from the operation of the provision? Is the clause to be considered as inhibiting the state from impairing the obligation of contracts between...words themselves contain no such distinction. They arc general, and arc applicable to contracts of every description. If contracts made with the state...
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Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of the Commonwealth of ..., Volume 5

Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 696 pages
...inhibiting the state from impairing ihe obligation of contracts between two individuals, but as excludmg from that inhibition contracts made with itself? The...made with the state are to be exempted from their operaiion, the exception must arise from the character of the contracting party, not from the words...
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Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Argued and Determined in the ..., Volume 71

Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1885 - 952 pages
...contracts between two individuals ; but has excluded from that inhibition contracts made with the state itself? The words themselves contain no such distinction...are applicable to contracts of every description." Story, in his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, insists that a grant by the state,...
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Speeches and Forensic Arguments, Volume 1

Daniel Webster - 1848 - 514 pages
...excluded from the operation of the provision? Is the clause to be considered as inhibiting the state from impairing the obligation of contracts between...excluding from that inhibition contracts made with itsolf ? The words themselves contain no such distinction. They are general, and are applicable to...
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Report of the Debates and Proceedings of the Convention for the Revision of ...

Kentucky. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional amendments - 1849 - 1140 pages
...the state from impairing the obligation of con' tracts between two individuals, but as exclu' ding from that inhibition contracts made with ' itself?...contain no such ' distinction. They are general, and are applica' ble to contracts of every description," "If contracts made with the state are to be 'exempted...
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Journal of the ... Session of the Legislature of the State of California

California. Legislature. Assembly - 1853 - 1284 pages
...excluded from the operation of the provision ? Is the clause to be considered as inhibiting the State from impairing the obligation of contracts between...from that inhibition contracts made with itself." " Whatever respect might have been felt for the State sovereignties, it is not to be disguised, that...
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Webster and His Master-pieces, Volume 2

Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Legislators - 1854 - 560 pages
...excluded from the operation of the provision ? Is the clause to be considered as inhibiting the state from impairing the obligation of contracts between...excluding from that inhibition contracts made with itself I The words themselves contain no such distinction. They are general, and are applicable to contracts...
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The Law of Contracts, Volume 3

Theophilus Parsons - Consideration (Law) - 1866 - 810 pages
...excluded from the operation of this provision ! Is the clause to bo considered as inhibiting the State from impairing the obligation of contracts between...excluding from that inhibition contracts made with itself? Tho words themselves contain no f.uch distinction. They arc general, and arc applicable to contracts...
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