 | Robert Walsh - American essays - 1830
...and flagrant abuse of legislative power; as, to authorize a manifest injustice by positive law, or take away that security for personal liberty, or private property, for the protection whereof the government was established: — an act of legislation (for I cannot call it a law), contrary... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837
...determine and overrule an apparent and flagrant abuse of legislative power; as to authorize manifest injustice by positive law; or to take away that security...personal liberty or private property, for the protection whereof government was established. An act of the legislature, for I cannot call it. a law, contrary... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 728 pages
...determine and overrule an apparent and flagrant abuse of legislative power ; as , to authorize manifest injustice by positive law ; or, to take away that...personal liberty, or private property, for the protection whereof the government was established. An act of the legislature, for I cannot call it a law, contrary... | |
 | William Dexter Wilson - Slavery - 1839 - 51 pages
...apparent and flagrant abuse of legislative power ; as, to authorize manifest injustice by positive lav/, to take away that security for personal liberty or private property for the protection whereof the government was established. An act of the legislature contrary to the great first principles... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 440 pages
...not in the power of the legislature, " in our free republican governments," " to authorize manifest injustice by positive law, or to take away that security...personal liberty, or private property, for the protection whereof government was established." Language cannot be plainer; and, if the present court hold to... | |
 | Florida. Legislature. House of Representatives - Florida - 1845
...determine and overrule an apparent and flagrant abuse of legislative power ; as, to authorize manifest injustice by positive law ; or to take away that security...personal liberty, or private property, for the protection whereof the government was established. An act of the legislature, (for I cannot call it a law,) contrary... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 976 pages
...flagrant abuse of legislative power; such, for instance, as authorized manifest injustice, or took away that security for personal liberty or private property, for the protection of which government was established. An act of the legislature, contrary to the great principles of the social... | |
 | Nathan Howard, New York (State). Supreme Court - Civil procedure - 1856
...overrule an apparent and flagrant abuse of legislative power; as to authorize manifest injustice by a positive law, or to take away that security for personal liberty or private property, for the protection whereof government was established. * * * A few instances will suffice to explain what I mean : A law... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 712 pages
...determine and overrule an apparent and flagrant abuse of legislative power, as to authorize manifest injustice by positive law, or to take away that security...personal liberty or private property, for the protection whereof the government was established. An act of the legislature (for I cannot call it a law) contrary... | |
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There are certain vital principles in our free republican governments, which will determine and overrule an apparent and flagrant abuse of legislative power; as to authorize manifest injustice by positive law; or to take away that security for personal... 
