Leading Cases on American Constitutional LawCallaghan, 1925 - 1382 páginas |
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... prohibition of the act punished . The State laws which Congress sees no occasion to alter , but which it allows to stand , are in ef- fect adopted by Congress . It simply demands their fulfillment . Content to leave the laws as they are ...
... prohibition of the act punished . The State laws which Congress sees no occasion to alter , but which it allows to stand , are in ef- fect adopted by Congress . It simply demands their fulfillment . Content to leave the laws as they are ...
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... Prohibition Act , c . 85 , 41 Stat . 305 , on a charge of transporting intoxicating liquor in violation of § 3 of that title , and by his petition sought to be discharged on several grounds , all but two of which were abandoned after ...
... Prohibition Act , c . 85 , 41 Stat . 305 , on a charge of transporting intoxicating liquor in violation of § 3 of that title , and by his petition sought to be discharged on several grounds , all but two of which were abandoned after ...
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... Prohibition Cases , 253 U. S. 350 , 386 . The remaining contention is that the ratifying resolutions of Tennessee and of West Virginia are inoperative , because adopted in violation of the rules of legislative procedure prevailing in ...
... Prohibition Cases , 253 U. S. 350 , 386 . The remaining contention is that the ratifying resolutions of Tennessee and of West Virginia are inoperative , because adopted in violation of the rules of legislative procedure prevailing in ...
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... Prohibition Cases ( 1920 ) , 253 U. S. 350 , the validity of that amendment was questioned on several grounds . The amendment was sustained on all points , but in announcing its decision the Supreme Court unfortunately departed from its ...
... Prohibition Cases ( 1920 ) , 253 U. S. 350 , the validity of that amendment was questioned on several grounds . The amendment was sustained on all points , but in announcing its decision the Supreme Court unfortunately departed from its ...
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... power . We find , in the constitution , no prohibition to its exercise , in every case in which the judicial power can be exercised . It would be a very bold construction , to say , that this 170 CASES ON CONSTITUTIONAL LAW .
... power . We find , in the constitution , no prohibition to its exercise , in every case in which the judicial power can be exercised . It would be a very bold construction , to say , that this 170 CASES ON CONSTITUTIONAL LAW .
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Página 322 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...
Página 763 - Those rivers must be regarded as public navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact. And they are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water.
Página 218 - The united states in congress assembled shall also be the last resort on appeal in all disputes and differences now subsisting or that hereafter may arise between two or more states concerning boundary, jurisdiction or any other cause whatever; which authority shall always be exercised in the manner following.
Página 573 - The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.
Página xviii - If any Person guilty of, or charged with treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor in any state, shall flee from Justice, and be found in any of the united states, he shall upon demand of the Governor or executive power, of the state from which he fled, be delivered up and removed to the state having jurisdiction of his offence. Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these states to the records, acts and judicial proceedings of the courts and magistrates of every other state.
Página xix - VI. No state, without the Consent of the united states in congress assembled, shall send any embassy to, or receive any embassy from, or enter into any conference, agreement, alliance or treaty with any King prince or state; nor shall any person holding any office of profit or trust under the united states, or any of them, accept of any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince or foreign state; nor shall the united states in congress assembled, or any of them,...
Página 292 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Página 250 - It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply the rule to particular cases, must of necessity expound and interpret that rule. If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each. So if a law be in opposition to the constitution; if both the law and the constitution apply to a particular case, so that the court must either decide that case conformably to the law, disregarding the constitution; or conformably...
Página xxii - ... provided also that no state shall be deprived of territory for the benefit of the united states. All controversies concerning the private right of soil claimed under different grants of two or more states, whose jurisdictions as they may respect such lands, and the states which passed such grants are adjusted, the said grants or either of them being at the same time claimed to have originated antecedent to such settlement of jurisdiction, shall on the petition of either party to the congress...
Página xx - United States in Congress assembled, unless such State be actually invaded by enemies, or shall have received certain advice of a resolution being formed by some nation of Indians to invade such State, and the danger is so imminent as not to admit of a delay, till the United States in Congress assembled can be consulted; nor shall any State grant commissions to any ships or vessels of war, nor letters of marque or reprisal, except it be after a declaration of war by the United States in Congress...