 The protection against unwise or oppressive legislation, within constitutional bounds, is by an appeal to the justice and patriotism of the representatives of the people. If this fail, the people in their sovereign capacity can correct the evil, but courts...  Reports of Civil and Criminal Cases Decided by the Court of Appeals of ... - Page 499by Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - 1913Full view - About this book
 | North American review - 1896 - 818 pages
...limits to its interference, except as should be prescribed In its own discretion. The protection against unwise or oppressive legislation, within constitutional...a statute when it conflicts with the Constitution. It cannot run a race of opinions upon points of right, reason, and expediency with the lawmaking power.... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1836 - 440 pages
...secured by some constitutional provision which comes within our judicial cognizance. The remedy for unwise or oppressive legislation within constitutional...patriotism of the representatives of the people. If this fails, the people in their sovereign capacity can correct the evil, but courts cannot assume their... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1835 - 472 pages
...some constitutional provision which comes within our judicial cognizance. The remedy for un- j wise or oppressive legislation within constitutional bounds,...patriotism of the representatives of the people. If this fails, the people in their sovereign capacity can correct the evil, but courts cannot assume their... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (3rd Circuit), Henry Baldwin - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 670 pages
...secured by some constitutional provision which comes within our judicial cognizance. The remedy for unwise or oppressive legislation, within constitutional...patriotism of the representatives of the people. If this fails, the people in their sovereign capacity can correct the evil ; but courts cannot assume their... | |
 | Bible - 1844 - 888 pages
...void, because it conflicts with our opinions of policy, expediency, or justice. * * * " The remedy for unwise or oppressive legislation, within constitutional...patriotism of the representatives of the people. If this fails, the people, in their sovereign capacity, can correct the evil ; but courts cannot assume tfyeir... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...constituted, could apply a remedy for unjust and oppressive legislation, for he says : " The remedy for unwise or oppressive legislation within constitutional...patriotism of the representatives of the people. If these fail, the people in their sovereign capacity can correct the evil, but courts cannot assume their... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 824 pages
...by some constitutional provision which comes within the judicial cognizance. The protection against unwise or oppressive legislation within constitutional...patriotism of the representatives of the people." This doctrine is upheld in numerous cases cited in the note to page 201. The rule of the statute, however,... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 754 pages
...constitution give that authority.' " Cooley Con^t. Lim. 169, 171, 172, 182, and cases cited. This Court can only arrest the execution of a statute when it conflicts with the Constitution; and, after as careful an examination as I have been able to give to the question presented, I am compelled... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 774 pages
...secured by some constitutional provision which comes within our judicial cognizance. The remedy for unwise or oppressive legislation, within constitutional bounds, is by an appeal to the justice and * Butler vs. Palmer, 1 Hill, 324. t 1 Com. p. 408. J See also, 1 Com. p. 488. patriotism of the representatives... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 720 pages
...make them. In case of unwise, though constitutional, legislation by the representatives of the people, "the people, in their sovereign capacity, can correct...a statute when it conflicts with the constitution. It cannot run a race of opinions upon points of right, reason and expediency with the lawmaking power."... | |
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