American people have said, in the constitution of the United States, that "no state shall pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law or law impairing the obligation of contracts. John Marshall: An Address - Page 28by Wayne MacVeagh - 1901 - 36 pagesFull view - About this book
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...that, in no doubtful case, would it pronounce a legislative act to be contrary to the constitution. But the American people have said, in the constitution...the United States, that " no State shall pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts." In the same instrument... | |
| Massachusetts - 1835 - 1576 pages
...proposed statute is to be exercised only by vote of the town. In these circumstances, the provision in the Constitution of the United States that no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts affords no protection to the water company independent of prohibitions... | |
| John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...in no doubtful case would itpronounce a legislative act to be contrary to the constitution. [__But the American people have said, in the constitution...the United States, that '• No state shall pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts." In the same instrument... | |
| Joel Prentiss Bishop - Divorce - 1852 - 782 pages
...has been suggested, but not often, that legislative divorces are an infringement of the provision of the Constitution of the United States, that " no State shall . . pass any . . . law impairing the obligation of contracts." * Indeed, in the Dartmouth College case, Air. Justice Story... | |
| Charles Bishop Goodrich - United States - 1853 - 364 pages
...execution and performance, restrained only in this exercise of authority, by an inhibition, found in the constitution of the United States, "that no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts." Over these subjects the federal government has no power —... | |
| John Appleton (M.D.) - 1859 - 752 pages
...edizione. 3 vol. 16mo. Cremona, 1781. BIBB, Hon. George M. An Exposition of the Meaning of the Clause in the Constitution of the United States, that " No State shall pass any eje post facto Law." Blair vs. Williams, and Lapsley PS. Brashear. Bvo, pp. 24. nd (Two copies.) Opinion... | |
| Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 836 pages
...by the passage of a bankrupt law by congress. Adams v. Storey, Paine's CCR 79. 104. The provision of the constitution of the United States, that " no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts," does not apply to state insolvent laws. Ibid. 105. The defendant,... | |
| Michigan. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1867 - 728 pages
...any contracts which we have already made. Those laws must remain in force, because the provision of the Constitution of the United States that no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts, would prevent their repeal. Mr. WILLAED. As I have already remarked,... | |
| South Carolina. Court of Appeals, J. S. G. Richardson - Equity - 1867 - 316 pages
...is, so far as it affects contracts existing when the Act was passed, repugnant to the provision of the Constitution of the United States that "no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts," and the similar provision of the Constitution of this State,... | |
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