Constitutional questions, it is true, are not settled by even a consensus of present public opinion, for it is the peculiar value of a written constitution that it places in unchanging form limitations upon legislative action and thus gives a permanence... Congressional Serial Set - Page 71913Full view - About this book
| Tennessee Bar Association - Bar associations - 1914 - 1764 pages
...than customary law, or, as was said by Mr. Justice Brewer, in Muller v. Oregon, 208 US 412, 420, that 'it is the peculiar value of a written' constitution...unchanging form limitations upon legislative action.' This, however, does not mean that the form is so rigid as to make government inadequate to the changing... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1164 pages
...them is the case of Ritchie v. People, 155 111. 98 [40 NE 454, 29 LRA 79, 46 Am. St. Rep. 315]. * * * Constitutional questions, it Is true, are not settled...popular government which otherwise would be lacking. At the same time, when a question of fact is debated and debatable, and the extent to which a special... | |
| Electronic journals - 1916 - 948 pages
...special legislation restricting or qualifying the conditions under which she should be permitted to toil. Constitutional questions, it is true, are not settled...popular government which otherwise would be lacking. At the same time, when a question of fact is debated and debatable, and the extent to which a special... | |
| 1911 - 924 pages
...special legislation restricting or qualifying the conditions under which she should be permitted to toil. Constitutional questions, it is true, are not settled by even a consensus of present public opinion. . . . At the same time, when a question of fact is debated and debatable, and the extent to which a... | |
| Labor - 1908 - 1132 pages
...special legislation restricting or qualifying the conditions under which she should be permitted to toil. Constitutional questions, it is true, are not settled...popular government which otherwise would be lacking. At the same time, when a question of fact is debated and debatable, and the extent to which a special... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 732 pages
...special legislation restricting or qualifying the conditions under which she should be permitted to toil. Constitutional questions, it is true, are not settled...popular government which otherwise would be lacking. At the same time, when a question of fact is debated and debatable, and the extent to of Glarus, 1848;... | |
| 1908 - 396 pages
...legislation restricting or qualifj-ing the conditions under which she should be permitted to toil. Constitutional questions, it is true, are not settled...popular government which otherwise would be lacking. At the same time, when a question of fact is debated and debatable, and the extent to which a special... | |
| Massachusetts. Department of Labor and Industries. Division of Statistics - Labor - 1908 - 926 pages
...special legislation restricting or qualifying the conditions under which she should be permitted to toil. Constitutional questions, it is true, are not settled...popular government which otherwise would be lacking. At the same time, when a question of fact is debated and debatable, and the extent to which a special... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1174 pages
...special legislation restricting or qualifying the conditions under which she should be permitted to toil. Constitutional questions, it is true, are not settled...popular government which otherwise would be lacking. At the same time, when a question of fact is debated and debatable, and the extent to which a special... | |
| Elbert William Robinson Ewing - Slavery - 1908 - 240 pages
...Feb. 24, 1908, said : "Constitutional questions, it is true, are not settled by even a consensus of public opinion, for it is the peculiar value of a...stability to popular government which otherwise would be lacking."7 The next great truth which we must bear in mind in our study of this case is, that the Supreme... | |
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