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 | Law - 1877 - 558 pages
...one. We know that this is a power which may be abused, but that is no argument against its existence. For protection against abuses by legislatures the...people must resort to the polls, not to the courts. After what has already been said it is unnecessary to refer at length to the effect of the other provision... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1877 - 526 pages
...one. We know that this is a power which may be abused, but that is no argument against its existence. For protection against abuses by legislatures the...people must resort to the polls, not to the courts. After what has already been said it is unnecessary to refer at length to the effect of the other provision... | |
 | Illinois - 1877 - 182 pages
...one. We know that this is a power which may be abused, but that is no argument against its existence. For protection against abuses by legislatures the...people must resort to the polls, not to the courts. After what has already been said it is unnecessary to refer at length to the effect of the other provision... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Property - 1881 - 44 pages
..." We know that this is a power which may be abused ; but this is no argument against its existence. For protection against abuses by legislatures the...people must resort to the polls, not to the courts." [Opinion of the court, in the case of Munn vs. Illinois.] I thought that the people had resorted most... | |
 | United States. Congress - Interstate commerce - 1884 - 582 pages
...power which may be abused ; but that is no argument against its existence. For protection againstabuses by Legislatures the people must resort to the polls, not to the courts. Not only is it true that railroads are subject to regulation and control by law as common carriers... | |
 | David Rorer - Railroad law - 1884 - 996 pages
...power which maybe abused; but that is no argument against its existence. For protection against abuse* by legislatures the people must resort to the polls, not to the courts. After what has already been said, it is unnecessary to refer at length to the effect of the other provision... | |
 | John Innes Clark Hare - Constitutional law - 1888 - 764 pages
...one. We know that this is a power which may be abused; but that is no argument against its existence. For protection against abuses by legislatures, the...people must resort to the polls, not to the courts." i 110 US 317, 325. Such legislation may be eminently just as regards companies which have been chartered... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 1210 pages
...government should review and correct the wrong that has been done. The temptation should be firmly resisted. "For protection against abuses by Legislatures the...people must resort to the polls, not to the courts." Munn v. Illinois, supra. It is gratifying to observe how promptly of late the Legislature has responded... | |
 | Religion - 1889 - 708 pages
...court now regards constitutional restraints is shown by the observation of Chief Justice Waite : " For protection against abuses by legislatures the...people must resort to the polls, not to the courts." In the Kansas case, an act was passed declaring that every place where intoxicating liquors were manufactured... | |
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