 | Robert Walsh - 1830 - 580 ページ
...administered with incorruptible integrity and enlightened wisdom. In reply to the plausible sophism, "that one legislature is competent to repeal any act...pass ; and that one legislature cannot abridge the power of a succeeding legislature," the Chief Justice says, "The correctness of this principle, so... | |
 | 1830 - 574 ページ
...administered with incorruptible integrity and enlightened wisdom. In reply to the plausible sophism, " that one legislature is competent to repeal any act which a former legislature vvas competent to pass ; and that one legislature cannot abridge the power of a succeeding legislature,"... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1831 - 608 ページ
...declared that, "so far as respects general legislation, it is a correct principle that one Legislature was competent to repeal any act which a former Legislature was competent to pass, unless absolute rights were vested by those laws. And further, in the case of Gulden et uxor vs. Bull... | |
 | James Madison Porter - 1837 - 72 ページ
...legislature competent to the annihilation of such title, and to a resumption of the property thus held ? The principle asserted is, that one legislature is...respects general legislation, can never be controverted But, if an act be done under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it. The past cannot be recalled... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1838 - 696 ページ
...logislature competent to the annihilation of such title, and to a resumption of the property thus held ? The principle asserted is, that one legislature is...competent to repeal any act which a former legislature wos compc.ent to pass; and that one legislature cannot abiidge the powers of a succeeding legislature.... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 ページ
...legislature competent to the annihilation of such title, and to a resumption of the property thus held ? The principle asserted is, that one legislature is...respects general legislation, can never be controverted. But if an act be done under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it. '.The past cannot be recalled... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1858 - 764 ページ
...United States, Chief Justice MARSHALL, speaking of the power of one Legislature to bind another, says: "The principle asserted is, that one Legislature is...succeeding Legislature. The correctness of this principle," he says, " so far as respects general legislation, can never be controverted. But if an act be done... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1040 ページ
...legislature competent to the annihilation of such title, and to a usurpation of the property thus held? The principle asserted is, that one legislature is...respects general legislation can never be controverted. But, if an act be done under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it. The past cannot be recalled... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 ページ
...annihilation of such title, and to a usurpation of the property thus held? The principle asserted-is, that one legislature is competent to repeal any act...respects general legislation can never be controverted. But, if an act be done under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it. The past cannot be recalled... | |
 | Kentucky. Constitutional Convention - 1849 - 1140 ページ
...it: " The principle asserted is, that one legisla' ture is competent to repeal any act which afor'mer legislature was competent to pass; and ' that one...abridge the powers ' of a succeeding legislature." What has been done under the constitution of Kentucky, the great organic law of the state? Negroes... | |
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The principle asserted is, that one legislature is competent to repeal any act which a former legislature was competent to pass ; and that one legislature cannot abridge the powers of a succeeding legislature. The correctness of this principle, so far... 
