 We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to...  Congressional Serial Set - Page 1507Full view - About this book
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...transcended. But we think the sound construction of the Constitution must allow to the legislature the discretion, with respect to the means by which the...body to perform the high duties assigned to it in a manner most beneficial to the people. Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the... | |
 | John Russell Hurd - Business & Economics - 1842 - 114 pages
...point, the following opinion of the Supreme Court, in the case before cited, is abundantly explicit : " We think the sound construction of the Constitution,...it, in the manner most beneficial to the people." And again, (page 423) : " The time has passed away when it can be necessary to enter into any discussion... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - Electronic books - 1854 - 550 pages
...substance of his views in respect to this grant of power is expressed in the following passage : — " We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the...to it in the manner most beneficial to the people. Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the Constitution, and all means which are,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Banks and banking - 1863 - 76 pages
...to make this clause restrictive, it would unquestionably have been«o in form as well as in effect. We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the...to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people. Let the end be legitimate ; let it be within the scope of the The result of the most careful and attentive... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals - Legal tender - 1863 - 254 pages
...tread on legislative ground. This Court disclaims all pretensions to such a power." Again : (P. 482.) " We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the...which will enable that body to perform the high duties assjgnccl to it. in the manner most beneficial to the people." Judge STORY expresses, very strongly,... | |
 | William B. Dana - Commerce - 1864 - 502 pages
...the sound construction of the Constitution must allow to the National Legi.-lature that'discretion, with respect to the means, by which the powers it...to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people. Let the end be legitimate, let it he within the scope of the Constitution, anil all mean» which are... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 746 pages
...the court. of is not to be understood as an absolute one. On the contrary, this court then held that the sound construction of the Constitution must allow...to it in the manner most beneficial to the people. Said Chief Justice Marshall, in delivering the opinion of the court: "Let the end be legitimate, let... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 780 pages
...its limits aj-e not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the constitution inust allow to the national legislature that discretion,...to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people. Let the Opinion of the Court. 244 US end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution,... | |
 | John Alexander Ferris - Business & Economics - 1867 - 400 pages
...Marshall. " We think the sound construction of the Constitution must allow to LEGAL TENDER NOTES. 315 the National Legislature that discretion, with respect...to it in the manner most beneficial to the people. Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the Constitution, and all means which are... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - Constitutional law - 1868 - 588 pages
...is supreme within its sphere of action," he concludes his argument with the following language : " We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the...to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people. Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the Constitution, and all means which are... | |
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