 | United States. Supreme Court - 1819 - 816 sider
...acts directly transferring one man's a 1 Bl. Com. 44. 6 Co. Ins. 46. -CASES IN THE SUPREME COURT 1819. estate to another, legislative judgments, decrees,...the land. Such a strange construction would render Dartmouth College Woodward, constitutional provisions of the highest important completely inoperative... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 sider
...this were so, acts of attainder, bills of pains and penalties, acts of confiscation, acts reversing judgments, and acts directly transferring one man's...highest importance completely inoperative and void. It would tend directly to establish the union of all powers in the legislature. There would be no general... | |
 | 1832 - 504 sider
...this were so, acts of attainder, bills of pains and penalties, acts of confiscation, acts reversing judgments, and acts directly transferring one man's...highest importance completely inoperative and void. It would tend directly to establish the union of all ppwers in the legislature. There would be no general... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1851 - 566 sider
...this were so, acts of attainder, bills of pains and penalties, acts of confiscation, acts reversing judgments, and acts directly transferring one man's...highest importance completely inoperative and void. It would tend directly to establish the union of all powers in the legislature. There would be no general,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853 - 566 sider
...this were so, acts of attainder, bills of pains and penalties, acts of confiscation, acts reversing judgments, and acts directly transferring one man's...highest importance completely inoperative and void. It would tend directly to establish the union of all powers in the legislature. There would be no general,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854 - 560 sider
...this were so, acts of attainder, bills of pains and penalties, acts of confiscation, acts reversing judgments, and acts directly transferring one man's...highest importance completely inoperative and void. It would tend directly to establish the union of all powers in the legislature. There would be no general,... | |
 | Robert S. Blackwell - 1869 - 740 sider
...were the case, acts of attainder, bills of pains and penalties, acts of confiscation, acts reversing judgments, and acts directly transferring one man's...administration of justice would be an empty form and idle 1 Holden v. James, 11 Mass. 396. 2 Burger v. Carter, 1 McMull. 413; State v. Simons, 2 Speers, 767;... | |
 | Robert S. Blackwell - 1869 - 738 sider
...were the case, acts of attainder, bills of pains and penalties, acts of confiscation, acts reversing judgments, and acts directly transferring one man's...decrees and forfeitures, in all possible forms, would bo the law of the land. Such a strange construction would render constitutional provisions of the highest... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1871 - 846 sider
...this were so, acts of attainder, bills of pains and penalties, acts of confiscation, acts reversing judgments, and acts directly transferring one man's...highest importance completely inoperative and void. It would tend directly to establish the union of all powers in the legislature. There would be no general... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1873 - 744 sider
...this were so, acts of attainder, bills of pains and penalties, acts of confiscation, acts reversing judgments, and acts directly transferring one man's...highest importance completely inoperative and void. It would tend directly to establish the union of all powers in the legislature. There would be no general,... | |
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Everything which may pass under the form of an enactment is not, therefore, to be considered the law of the land. If this were so, acts of attainder, bills of pains and penalties, acts of confiscation, acts reversing judgments, and acts directly transferring... 
