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Page 48 - All men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness.
Page 499 - No law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact.
Page 499 - ... no law shall be passed abridging the freedom of speech or of the press...
Page 100 - The Legislature shall protect by law, from forced sale, a certain portion of the homestead and other property of all heads of families.
Page 311 - They would contain various exceptions to powers not granted; and, on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?
Page 432 - No member of this state shall be disfranchised, or deprived of any of the rights or privileges secured to any citizen thereof, unless by the law of the land or the judgment of his peers.
Page 499 - In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers or men in public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence; and in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the Court, as in other cases.
Page 216 - The question, whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the Constitution, is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which ought seldom, if ever, to be decided in the affirmative, in a doubtful case.
Page 621 - Laws shall be passed, taxing by a uniform rule, all moneys, credits, investments in bonds, stocks, joint stock companies, or otherwise; and also all real and personal property, according to its true value in money...
Page 211 - If, when the unconstitutional portion is stricken out, that which remains is -complete in itself, and capable of being executed in accordance with the apparent legislative intent, wholly independent of that which -was rejected, it must be sustained.
Bibliographic information
| Title | A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations which Rest Upon the Legislative Power of the States of the American Union HeinOnline: World constitutions illustrated Legal classics library The Making of the Modern Law |
| Author | Thomas McIntyre Cooley |
| Editor | Alexis Caswell Angell |
| Contributor | Alexis Caswell Angell |
| Edition | 6 |
| Publisher | Little, Brown,, 1890 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Jul 20, 2006 |
| Length | 885 pages |
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