Some Account of the Work of Stephen J. Field: As a Legislator, State Judge, and Justice of the Supreme Court of the United StatesChauncey F. Black, Samuel B. Smith 1881 - Constitutional history - 527 pages |
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... bill of attainder , or an ex post fucto law . No machinery is necessary to annul any legislation in disregard of these prohibitions , except such as may facilitate proceedings for that purpose in the courts ; and no other legislation ...
... bill of attainder , or an ex post fucto law . No machinery is necessary to annul any legislation in disregard of these prohibitions , except such as may facilitate proceedings for that purpose in the courts ; and no other legislation ...
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... bill of attainder or an ex post facto law . Nor would legislation be appropriate which should conflict with the implied prohi- bitions upon Congress . They are as obligatory as the express prohibi- tions . The Constitution , as already ...
... bill of attainder or an ex post facto law . Nor would legislation be appropriate which should conflict with the implied prohi- bitions upon Congress . They are as obligatory as the express prohibi- tions . The Constitution , as already ...
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... bill of attainder and an ex post facto law , or a law impairing the obligation of contracts ; and in enforcing those prohibitions it was never supposed that criminal pros- ecutions could be authorized against members of the State ...
... bill of attainder and an ex post facto law , or a law impairing the obligation of contracts ; and in enforcing those prohibitions it was never supposed that criminal pros- ecutions could be authorized against members of the State ...
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... bill of attainder , an ex post facto law , or a law impairing the obligation of contracts , said : ' Neither provision can strictly be considered as introducing any new principle , but only for greater security and safety to incorporate ...
... bill of attainder , an ex post facto law , or a law impairing the obligation of contracts , said : ' Neither provision can strictly be considered as introducing any new principle , but only for greater security and safety to incorporate ...
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... bill of attainder or an ex post facto law , or a law impairing the obligation of contracts ; —in other words , that a law of a State can be annulled only through the judiciary , and not by criminal proceedings against its legislators ...
... bill of attainder or an ex post facto law , or a law impairing the obligation of contracts ; —in other words , that a law of a State can be annulled only through the judiciary , and not by criminal proceedings against its legislators ...
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Page 109 - States to make and enforce contracts; to sue, be parties, and give evidence ; to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property ; and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, and penalties, and to none other, any law, statute ordinance, regulation, or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 388 - All persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and to no other.
Page 365 - Citizens of the United States visiting or residing in China shall enjoy the same privileges, immunities, or exemptions in respect to travel or residence as may there be enjoyed by the citizens or subjects of the most favored nation...
Page 279 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 146 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence, and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created.
Page 109 - That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States...
Page 251 - When the death of one is caused by the wrongful act or omission of another, the personal representatives of the former may maintain an action therefor against the latter, if the former might have maintained an action had he lived, against the latter for an injury for the same act or omission.
Page 258 - Commerce with foreign countries, and among the States, strictly considered, consists in intercourse and traffic, including in these terms navigation, and the transportation and transit of persons and property, as well as the purchase, sale, and exchange of commodities.
Page 258 - If the States may tax one instrument, employed by the government in the execution of its powers, they may tax any and every other instrument. They may tax the mail ; they may tax the mint ; they may tax...
Page 260 - It is admitted that there is no express provision in the Constitution that prohibits the general government from taxing the means and instrumentalities of the States, nor is there any prohibiting the States from taxing the means and instrumentalities of that government. In both cases the exemption rests upon necessary implication, and is upheld by the great law of self-preservation; as any government, whose means employed in conducting its operations, if subject to the control of another and distinct...