 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...embarrass its legislation, and render immutable tk* civil institutions, which are establishexl lor purpose of internal government, and which, to subserve...so unnecessary, so mischievous, and so repugnant^ its general spirit, the term " contract', must he understood in a more limited sense. That it roust... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...embarrass its legislation, and render immutable those civil institutions which are established for purposes of internal government, and which, to subserve those purposes, ought to vary with varying circumstancesTj That, as the framers of the constitution could never have intended to insert in that... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 926 pages
...incalculable, in rendering immutable many civil institutions that might be set on foot for purposes of its internal government, and which, to subserve those...purposes, ought to vary with varying circumstances. Accordingly, Judge STORY remarks, in the case Alumina v. The Potomac Co., (8 Peters at p. 287,) that... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...its legislation, and render immutable those civil institutions, which are established for purposes of internal government, and which, to subserve those...limited sense. That it must be understood as intended to guard against a power of at least doubtful utility, the abuse of which had been extensively felt; and... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional law - 1854 - 674 pages
...embarrass its legislation, and render immutable those civil institutions which are established for purposes of internal government, and which, to subserve those...limited sense. That it must be understood as intended to guard against a power of at least doubtful utility, the abuse of which had been extensively felt ;... | |
 | Law - 1880 - 554 pages
...the Constitution, if given the effect contended for in respect to corporate franchises, "would be an unprofitable and vexatious interference with the internal...purposes, ought to vary with varying circumstances" (p. C28); but Chief Justice Marshall, when he announced the opinion of the court, was careful to say... | |
 | Illinois - 1873 - 992 pages
...embarrass its legislation, and render immutable those civil institutions which are established for purposes of internal government, and which, to subserve those..."contract" must be understood in a more limited sense.'' (4Wheaton, 627-8.) "The general correctness of these observations," he says, "cannot be controverted.... | |
 | Wisconsin. Railroad Commissioners' Department - Railroad law - 1874 - 682 pages
...greatest latitude, would prohibit these laws. Taken in its broad unlimited sense, the clause would be an unprofitable and vexatious interference with the internal...limited sense. That it must be understood as intended to guard against a power of at least doubtful utility, the abuse of which had been extensively felt, and... | |
 | Wisconsin. Railroad Commissioners' Department - Railroad law - 1874 - 680 pages
...prohibit those laws. Taken in its broad unlimited sense, the clause would be an unprofitable and vexations interference with the internal concerns of a state,...ought to vary with varying circumstances. That as the fraraers of the constitution could never have intended to insert in that instrument a provision so... | |
 | Law - 1881 - 638 pages
...ami reir.ler immutable those civil institutions which are established for the purposes of interna' government, and which, to subserve those purposes,...to vary with varying circumstances. * * » » That the framers of the Constitution did not intend to restrain the States in the regulations of their civil... | |
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Taken in its broad, unlimited sense, the clause would be an unprofitable and vexatious interference with the internal concerns of a state; would unnecessarily and unwisely embarrass its legislation, and render immutable those civil institutions which... 
