| Joseph Blunt - History - 1835 - 624 pages
...nature of society and of government do not prescribe some limits to the legislative power; and he asks, "if any be prescribed, where are they to be found, if the property of an individual, fairly and honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation ?" It is no where intimated in that opinion,... | |
| Joseph Blunt - History - 1830 - 628 pages
...nature of society and of government do not prescribe some limits to the legislative power; and he asks, "if any be prescribed, where are they to be found, if the property of an individual, fairly and honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation ?" It is no where intimated in that opinion,... | |
| N. Saxton, New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Equity - 1836 - 766 pages
...Story, J., (speaking in reference to Rhode Island, where they have no written constitution,) says, It may well be doubted, whether the nature of society and of government, does not present some limits to legislative authority : 6 Crunch? s R. 135 ; 2 Peters' R. 657. This position... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 696 pages
...legitimate, is rendered so by a power applicable to the case of every individual in the community. It may well be doubted whether the nature of society...found, if the property of an individual, fairly and honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation. • To the legislature, all legislative power... | |
| James Madison Porter - Charters - 1837 - 72 pages
...legitimate, is rendered so by a power applicable to the case of everv individual in the community. It may well be doubted whether the nature of society...some limits to the legislative power ; and, if any be proscribed, where are they to be found, if the property of an individual, fairly and honestly acquired,... | |
| Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 696 pages
...legitimate, is rendered so by a power applicable to the case of every individual in the community. It may well be doubted whether the nature of society and of government docs not prescribe some limits to the legislative power; and, if any be prescribed, where are they... | |
| John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...legitimate, is rendered so by a power applicable to the case of every individual in the community. It may well be doubted whether the nature of society...found, if the property of an individual, fairly and honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation ? To the legislature all legislative power is... | |
| New York (State). Supreme Court, John Lansing Wendell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1846 - 722 pages
...nature of society and of government do not prescribe some limits to the legislative power ; and he asks, if any be prescribed, where are they to be found if the property of an individual, fairly and honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation ? It is no where intimated in that opinion that... | |
| E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...legitimate, is rendered so by a power applicable to the case of every individual in the community. • " It may well be doubted whether the nature of society...found, if the property of an individual, fairly and honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation 1 " To the legislature all legislative power... | |
| Kentucky. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional amendments - 1849 - 1140 pages
...rights of property, and upon this proposition 1 will make a few remarks presently. " It may well ba doubted whether the nature ' of society and of government...prescribed, where are they to be found, ' if the property [the word property is used here] 'of an individual, fairly and honestly acquired, '.may be seized without... | |
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