 | United States. Supreme Court - 1884 - 666 sider
...Justice Taney, speaking for the court, in Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge, 11 Pet. 420, 547 ; " It can never be assumed that the government intended...of accomplishing the end for which it was created." This is an elementary principle. In Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company v. Iowa, 94 US 155... | |
 | 1885 - 892 sider
...speaking of the taxing power, which is of vital importance to the very existence of every government. But the object and end of all government is to promote...of accomplishing the end for which it was created. And in a country like ours, free, active and enterprising, continually advancing in numbers and wealth,... | |
 | Jabez Gridley Sutherland - 1891 - 836 sider
...clear and explicit terms ; * but it will be construed reasonably for the purpose the act contemplates.5 The object and end of all government is to promote the happiness and prosperity of the people by which it is established ; ai4d it cannot be assumed that the government intended to diminish... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - 1893 - 734 sider
...shaking of the taxing power, which is of vital importance to the very existence of every government. But the object and end of all government is to promote...be assumed that the government intended to diminish ita power of accomplishing the end for which it was created. And in a country like ours, free, active,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1894 - 742 sider
...Justice Taney: " The object and end of all government," said the Chief Justice, speaking for the court, " is to promote the happiness and prosperity of the...of accomplishing the end for which it was created. . . . The continued existence of a government would be of no great value, if l)y implications and presumptions... | |
 | Ohio. Courts - 1898 - 612 sider
...to promote the happiness and prosperity oi the people by which it is established; and it cannot be that the government intended to diminish its power...of accomplishing the end for which it was created." Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge, 11 Pet , 420, 447. "It is, therefore, never implied that it... | |
 | Albert D. Cooke - 1897 - 52 sider
...Congress an enormous increase of power? Judge Ta ney in delivering the opinion of the Court said: "But the object and end of all government is to promote...of accomplishing the end for which it was created. * * * The continued existence of a government would be of no great value if by implications and presumptions... | |
 | Lawrence Boyd Evans - 1898 - 702 sider
...power does not, and cannot, depend upon the circumstance of its having been exercised •or not. • and prosperity of the community by which it is established;...of accomplishing the end for which it was created. And in a country like ours, free, active, and enterprising, continually advancing in numbers and wealth,... | |
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But the object and end of all government is to promote the happiness and prosperity of the community by which it is established; and it can never be assumed that the government intended to diminish its power of accomplishing the end for which it was created. 
