| Robert Walsh - American essays - 1830 - 580 pages
...administered with incorruptible integrity and enlightened wisdom. In reply to the plausible sophism, "that one legislature is competent to repeal any act...pass ; and that one legislature cannot abridge the power of a succeeding legislature," the Chief Justice says, "The correctness of this principle, so... | |
| American literature - 1830 - 574 pages
...administered with incorruptible integrity and enlightened wisdom. In reply to the plausible sophism, " that one legislature is competent to repeal any act which a former legislature vvas competent to pass ; and that one legislature cannot abridge the power of a succeeding legislature,"... | |
| New York (State). Legislature. Senate - New York (State) - 1831 - 608 pages
...declared that, "so far as respects general legislation, it is a correct principle that one Legislature was competent to repeal any act which a former Legislature was competent to pass, unless absolute rights were vested by those laws. And further, in the case of Gulden et uxor vs. Bull... | |
| James Madison Porter - Charters - 1837 - 72 pages
...annihilation of such title, and to a resumption of the property thus held ? The principle asserted is, that one legislature is competent to repeal any...under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it. The past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power. Conveyances have been made, those conveyances... | |
| Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 696 pages
...annihilation of such title, and to a resumption of the property thus held ? The principle asserted is, that one legislature is competent to repeal any act which a former legislature wos compc.ent to pass; and that one legislature cannot abiidge the powers of a succeeding legislature.... | |
| John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...annihilation of such title, and to a resumption of the property thus held ? The principle asserted is, that one legislature is competent to repeal any...under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it. '.The past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power.] Conveyances have been made, those conveyances... | |
| 1841 - 570 pages
...annulment to be unconstitutional, and the grant to stand good. We again quote the words of Marshall : " If an act be done under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it. The past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power. When, then, a law is in its nature a contract,... | |
| Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 764 pages
...Justice MARSHALL, speaking of the power of one Legislature to bind another, says: "The principle asserted is, that one Legislature is competent to repeal any...succeeding Legislature. The correctness of this principle," he says, " so far as respects general legislation, can never be controverted. But if an act be done... | |
| E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...the annihilation of such title, and to a usurpation of the property thus held? The principle asserted is, that one legislature is competent to repeal any...under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it. The past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power. Conveyances have been made ; those conveyances... | |
| E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...annihilation of such title, and to a usurpation of the property thus held? The principle asserted-is, that one legislature is competent to repeal any act...under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it. The past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power. Conveyances have been made ; those conveyances... | |
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