 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Edward Jordan Dimock, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Louis J. Rezzemini, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1850 - 614 pages
...is written, regardless of consequences. If the law does not work well, the people can amend it ; and inconveniences can be borne long enough to await that...undertake to cure defects by forced and unnatural conOakley v. Aspinwall. structions, they inflict a wound upon the constitution which nothing can heal.... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 770 pages
...it written, regardless of consequences. If the law does not work well, the people can amend it ; and inconveniences can be borne long enough to await that...cure -defects by forced and unnatural constructions, tbey inflict a wound upon the constitution which nothing can heal. One step taken by the legislature... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 774 pages
...it written, regardless of consequences. If the law does not work well, the people can amend it ; and inconveniences can be borne long enough to await that...if the legislature or the courts undertake to cure * The State vs. Springfield Township, 6 Indiana, 84. t Beebe «s. The State, 6 Indiana, 501. defects... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1868 - 776 pages
...is written, regardless of consequences. If the law does not work well, the people can amend it ; and inconveniences can be borne long enough to await that...constructions, they inflict a wound upon the Constitution spirit which it is thought pervades or lies concealed in the Constitution, but wholly unexpressed,... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1871 - 846 pages
...is written, regardless of consequences. If the law does not work well, the people can amend it ; and inconveniences can be borne long enough to await that...legislature or the judiciary, in enlarging the powers of the government, opens the door for another which will be sure to follow ; and so the process goes on... | |
 | William Nichols Coler - Municipal bonds - 1873 - 482 pages
...by yielding to such influences that Constitutions are gradually undermined and finally overthrown. One step taken by the Legislature or the judiciary in enlarging the powers of the Government, opens the door for another that will be sure to follow ; and so the process goes on... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 904 pages
...is written, regardless of consequences. If the law does not work well, the people can amend it ; and inconveniences can be borne long enough to await that...legislature or the judiciary, in enlarging the powers of the government, opens the door for another which will be sure to follow; and so the process goes on... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional law - 1874 - 750 pages
...is written, regardless of consequences. If the law does not work well, the people can amend it; and inconveniences can be borne long enough to await that...nothing can heal. One step taken by the Legislature or judiciary in enlarging the powers of the Government opens the door for another, which will be sure... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 660 pages
...by yielding lo such influences that constitutions are gradually undermined and finally overthrown. One step taken by the legislature or the judiciary in enlarging the powers of the government, opens the door for another that will be sure to follow; and so the process goes on... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 750 pages
...not work well," says Bronson, 0. J., in Oakley v. Axpinwall, 3 NY 568, "the people can amend it; and inconveniences can be borne long enough to await that...legislature or the courts undertake to cure defects by foreed and unnatural constructions, they inflict a wound upon the Constitution which nothing can heal.... | |
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... beyond their legitimate boundary. It is by yielding to such influences that constitutions are gradually undermined, and finally overthrown. My rule has ever been to follow the fundamental law as it is written, regardless of consequences. If the law... 
