 It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the integrity, and the patriotism of the legislative body by which any law is passed, to presume in favor of its validity, until its violation of the constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt.  Delaware Reports: Containing Cases Decided in the Supreme Court (excepting ... - Page 85by David Thomas Marvel, John W. Houston, James Pennewill, Samuel Maxwell Harrington, William Henry Boyce, William Watson Harrington, William J. Storey, Charles L. Terry - 1901Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 444 pages
...so felt and acknowledged, that alone, would, in my estimation, be a satisfactory vindicatiouof it. It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the...constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt. This has always been the language of this court, when that subject has called for its decision ; and... | |
 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 840 pages
...but a decent respect," said the United States Supreme Court in Ogden v. Saunders, 12 Wheat. 213, 270, "due to the wisdom, the integrity and the patriotism...presume in favor of its validity, until its violation is proved beyond all reasonable doubt." Whether this immunity from collateral attack is so intimately... | |
 | Maryland - Bankruptcy - 1831 - 256 pages
...so felt and acknowledged, that alone w.ould, in my estimation, be a satisfactory vindication of it. It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the...legislative body, by which any law is passed, to presume in favour of its validity, until its violation of the constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt.... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...so felt and acknowledged, that alone would, in my estimation, be a satisfactory vindication of it. It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the...constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt. This has always been the language of this court, when 12 Wh. 270. that subject has called for its decision... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 970 pages
...Legislature are to be presumed constitutional until the contrary is shown. Sears vs. Cottrell, 5 Mich., 259. "It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the...law is passed to presume in favor of its validity." Ogden vs. Saunders, 12 Wheat., 270; Cooley's Const. Lim., 183. It might be superfluous to attempt to... | |
 | 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 - 1891 - 780 pages
...liberally construed, and all doubts solved in its favor. As was said in Ogden v. Sounders, 12 Wheat. 270: "It is but a decent respect, due to the wisdom, the...constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt." The essential provisions of this law are as follows: 1. All ballots must be of the same width, length,... | |
 | 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 - 1884 - 754 pages
...sustained. Chief Justice Marshall, in stating this rule in Ogden v. Saundera 12 Wheat. 270 says : " It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the...legislative body, by which any law is passed, to presume in favour of its validity, until its violation of the constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt."... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 822 pages
...so felt and acknowledged, that alone would, in my estimation, be a satisfactory vindication of it. It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the...constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt. This has always been the language of this court, when that subject has called for its decision ; and... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1868 - 776 pages
...so felt and acknowledged, that alone would, in my estimation, be a satisfactory vindication of it. It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the...of the constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt."2 The constitutionality of a law, then, is to be presumed, because the legislature, which was... | |
 | Law - 1890 - 542 pages
...so felt and acknowledged, thut alone would, in my estimation, be a satisfactory rindication of it. It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the...Constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt." This rule has been recognized and followed ever since by nil the courts of lust resort, State and Federal,... | |
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