 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...  Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania - Page 1241835Full view - About this book
 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1002 pages
...constitutional provision which comes within the judicial cognizance. The protection against the unwise or oppressive legislation within constitutional bounds,...patriotism of the representatives of the people. If this fail, the people in their sovereign capacity can correct the evil, but courts cannot assume their rights.... | |
 | North American review - 1896 - 818 pages
...its interference, except as should be prescribed In its own discretion. The protection against unwise or oppressive legislation, within constitutional bounds,...patriotism of the representatives of the people. If this fail, the people in their sovereign capacity can correct the evil, but courts cannot assume their rights.... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (3rd Circuit), Henry Baldwin - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 670 pages
...by some constitutional provision which comes within our judicial cognizance. The remedy for unwise or oppressive legislation, within constitutional bounds,...assume their rights. The supreme court have decided, Satterlee v. Matthewson, 2 Peters 412, 413, 414, that a state law, though an unwise and unjust exercise... | |
 | Bible - 1844 - 888 pages
...because it conflicts with our opinions of policy, expediency, or justice. * * * " The remedy for unwise or oppressive legislation, within constitutional bounds,...capacity, can correct the evil ; but courts cannot assume tfyeir rights. LEGAL AND JUDICIAL OPINIONS. 21 " That would submit laws to a test as fallible and uncertain... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...constituted, could apply a remedy for unjust and oppressive legislation, for he says: " The remedy for unwise or oppressive legislation within constitutional bounds...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
...constitutional provision which comes within the judicial cognizance. The protection against unwise or oppressive legislation within constitutional bounds...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,... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 770 pages
...Palmer, 1 Hill, 324. t 1 Com. p. 408. patriotism of the representatives of the people. If this fail, the people in their sovereign capacity, can correct...the evil ; but courts cannot assume their rights." * * " There is no paramount and supreme law which defines the law of nature, or settles those great... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 774 pages
...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...the evil, but courts cannot assume their rights. The judiciary can only arrest the execution of a statute when it conflicts with the constitution. It cannot... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1868 - 776 pages
...by some constitutional provision which comes within the judicial cognizance. The remedy for unwise or oppressive legislation, within constitutional bounds,...patriotism of the representatives of the people. If this fail, the people in their sovereign capacity can correct the evil ; but courts cannot assume their... | |
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