The other is that while unconstitutional exercise of power by the executive and legislative branches of the government is subject to judicial restraint, the only check upon our own exercise of power is our own sense of self-restraint. Government Contract Law Cases - Page 131edited by - 1975 - 889 pagesFull view - About this book
| United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1936 - 820 pages
...have controlling influence in determining the validity of the Act. They are: 1 Stone, J., dissenting. by the executive and legislative branches of the government...exercise of power is our own sense of self-restraint. For the removal of unwise laws from the statute books appeal lies not to the courts but to the ballot... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Courts - 1937 - 1042 pages
...mentioned in the Constitution, but was left to lurk in inference. As Mr. Justice Stone has well said : The only check upon our own exercise of power is our own sense of selfrestraint ( United States v. Butler, 297 US 1 at 79). Chief Justice Hughes, when Governor of New York, put in... | |
| Gerhard Leibholz - Law - 1976 - 718 pages
...Terminus selbst verwendete. Meist wird hier die opinion von Justice HF Stone in US v. Butler 77 zitiert (»the only check upon our own exercise of power is our own sense of self-restraint«), mit der er die Feststellung der Verfassungswidrigkeit des Agricultural Adjustment Act von 1933 durch... | |
| Roger A. Freeman - Finance, Public - 1981 - 556 pages
...in his later years to explain this away." Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone wrote in a 1936 dissent that "the only check upon our own exercise of power is our own sense of self-restraint."f''More often than not, it was a judge disagreeing with a majority of his brethren,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Judges - 1989 - 1322 pages
...quote: "* * * While the unconstitutional exercise of power by the executive and legislative branches of Government is subject to judicial restraint, the only...exercise of power is our own sense of self-restraint." Judges have no license to toy with the Constitution as if it were their personal plaything, rather... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Judges - 1991 - 1304 pages
...return, asked the Court to exercise that power responsibly. As Justice Stone once observed, and I quote, "The only check upon our own exercise of power is our own sense of self-restraint." This hearing will help us to determine, as a Congress and as a country, how Judge Souter intends to... | |
| Max Lerner - Political Science - 1940 - 580 pages
...Edward S. Corwin's acute article, "Judicial Review" (1937), 8 Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences 457, only check upon our own exercise of power is our own sense of selfrestraint"),10 despite this cry, the official theory makes no similar assumption about the stake... | |
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