 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - 1833 - 636 pages
...treaties and alliances, coin money, &c. It is a matter of no sort of importance, which instrument happened to precede the other in point of time, whether the...It is needless to pursue the subject further; it is apparent that the State of South Carolina has no such right as she claims under the constitution. And... | |
 | Edward Prigg, Richard Peters - 1842 - 152 pages
...the subject. In the case supposed, whence does the legislature derive its power? Is it derived from the constitution of the state, or the Constitution of the United States ? If the power is given by the state constitution, it must foTow that it may be exercised independently... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1873 - 782 pages
...general terms, that the Gene-ral Assembly may pass any law which it is not- prohibited from passing by the Constitution of the State, or the Constitution of the United States. State rs. Ayhley, 1 Ark., 513. The authority of the Legislature to regulate the exercise of privileges,... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1871 - 818 pages
...sovereign acts, are exercisable by the legislature of the State, except so far as it is restrained by the constitution of the State or the constitution of the United States. — Cooley Const. Lim. 87, 88, 168, 169 ; People v. Draper, 15 N. Y. 543, 544, 535 ; 27 Penn. 142 ;... | |
 | 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 - 1900 - 808 pages
...only to such limitations as are imposed thereon by the express or implied limitations contained in the Constitution of the State or the Constitution of the United States. To understand the force and effect of the provisions of our Constitution in relation to the attitude... | |
 | 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 - 1913 - 804 pages
...Rep. 736); 32 Cyc. p. 1251. A statute of the State must be respected unless it is in conflict with the Constitution of the State or the Constitution of the United States. Whitfield v. Insurance Co., 205 US 489 (27 Sup. Ct. 578). The people having spoken through their representatives... | |
 | Ivory Chamberlain, Thomas Moses Foote - 1856 - 230 pages
...the subject. In the case supposed, whence does the Legislature derive its power? Is it derived from the constitution of the State, or the constitution of the .United States 2 " If the power is given by the State constitution, it must follow that it may be exercised independently... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 696 pages
...the subject. In the case supposed, whence does the legislature derive its power ? Is it derived from the constitution of the State, or the constitution of the United States ? If the power is given by the state constitution, it must follow that it may be exercised independently... | |
 | Anson Bingham - 1875 - 570 pages
...when such construction does not conflict with the restraints imposed upon the legislature, either by the Constitution of the State or the Constitution of the United States. Statutes touching the legitimation of bastards, or the extension to them of inheritable rights, are... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1872
...schools; and the question presented for our decision is, whether such legislation is in conflict with the Constitution of the State or the Constitution of the United States. The aid of the Court was requested to declare the right of admission of said negro children in the school... | |
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State, by its legislature, to adopt such a policy as it deems best, provided it does not, in so doing, come into conflict with the constitution of the State or the Constitution of the United States. 
