 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1851 - 642 pages
...constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitatiou committed to writing, if these limits may at any time...the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested,... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1851 - 706 pages
...written constitution. But to what purpose is that limitation, if those limits may at any time be passed ? The distinction between a government with limited...the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited, and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. If the constitution does not control any legislative... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - Judges - 1854 - 554 pages
...are defined and limited. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may at any time...restrained ? The distinction between a government of limited and unlimited powers is abolished, if these limits do "not confine the persons on whom they... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 712 pages
...constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing if these limits may at any time...confine the persons on whom they are imposed and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested... | |
 | John Fulton - Constitutional history - 1864 - 582 pages
...Constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may at any time...the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 746 pages
...what purpose," said Marshall, CJ, speaking for this court in Madison v. Marbury, " are limitations committed to writing, if these limits may at any time...not confine the persons on whom they are imposed;" but all powers under the discretion of a choice of means are left open to them. And in that case the... | |
 | Impeachments - 1868 - 542 pages
...Constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may at any time...the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 532 pages
...To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, it these limits may at any time be passed by those intended...the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Alexander James Dallas, William Cranch, United States. Supreme Court, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 708 pages
...constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any...if those limits do not confine the persons on whom [ * 177 ] they are imposed, and if acts prohibited * and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. It... | |
 | Law - 1885 - 544 pages
...Madison, ICranoh, 137, Marshall, CJ,says: "To what purpose are limitations committed to writing if those limits may at any time be passed by those intended...not confine the persons on whom they are imposed." These citations are apt to show how the police power may and how it ought not to be exercised, and... | |
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To what purpose are powers limited and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained ? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished... 
