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... question , so far as the past is concerned , your committee pro- pose to leave for the decision of the Supreme Court ... question , a fairly debatable question , whether his interpretation is right or whether it is not . But we place our ...
... question , so far as the past is concerned , your committee pro- pose to leave for the decision of the Supreme Court ... question , a fairly debatable question , whether his interpretation is right or whether it is not . But we place our ...
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... question . It is said that the acts of 1862 and 1864 constitute a contract be- tween the United States and the railroad companies accepting and acting under them which cannot be impaired by subsequent legisla- tion , and Dartmouth ...
... question . It is said that the acts of 1862 and 1864 constitute a contract be- tween the United States and the railroad companies accepting and acting under them which cannot be impaired by subsequent legisla- tion , and Dartmouth ...
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... question whether a right has vested or not is , in its nature , judicial , and must be tried by the judicial authority . - 1 Oranch , 162 . It is said , and was said by my learned colleague , that the very principle of sovereignty which ...
... question whether a right has vested or not is , in its nature , judicial , and must be tried by the judicial authority . - 1 Oranch , 162 . It is said , and was said by my learned colleague , that the very principle of sovereignty which ...
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... question , and I have quoted them because they constitute the common ground of our argument , as they are relied upon not only by myself but by the distinguished member of the Ju- diciary Committee who specially argued this question ...
... question , and I have quoted them because they constitute the common ground of our argument , as they are relied upon not only by myself but by the distinguished member of the Ju- diciary Committee who specially argued this question ...
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... question with view of understanding the exact position of the committee and himself in this matter , which has been a matter of a good deal of reflection with me . I desire to ask the Senator if he claims that it is not in the power of ...
... question with view of understanding the exact position of the committee and himself in this matter , which has been a matter of a good deal of reflection with me . I desire to ask the Senator if he claims that it is not in the power of ...
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act of Congress alter and amend amount annually assert authority bill BLAINE cent Central Pacific Railroad charter CHRISTIANCY claim commissioners Constitution construction contract corporations created creditors debt decision declared default dividends dollar duty earnings EDMUNDS ernment exercise existing first-mortgage bonds franchises Government grant half transportation impair the obligation interest issued Judiciary Committee Kansas Pacific Railroad land legislation Legislature lien loan maturity ment MERRIMON Missouri River mortgage net earnings object Pacific Ocean Pacific Railroad acts Pacific Railroad Company paid panies parties passed payable payment power of Congress President principle proposed proposition provision purpose question railroad and telegraph reference repeal reserved power right to alter road Secretary secure Senator from Maine Senator from Ohio Senator from Vermont sinking fund statute stockholders Supreme Court telegraph line THURMAN tion Treasury Union Pacific Railroad United vote Western Pacific Railroad
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Seite 112 - An act [to amend an act entitled an act] to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Seite 555 - ... a power reserved to the legislature to alter, amend or repeal a charter authorizes it to make any alteration or amendment of a charter granted subject to it, which will not defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant, or any rights vested under it, and which the legislature may deem necessary to secure either that object or any public right.
Seite 116 - It must be conceded that there are such rights in every free government beyond the control of the State. A government which recognized no such rights, which held the lives, the liberty, and the property of its citizens subject at all times to the absolute disposition and unlimited control of even the most democratic depository of power, is after all but a despotism.
Seite 663 - That the grants aforesaid are made upon condition that said company shall pay the bonds at maturity, and shall keep said railroad and telegraph line in repair and use, and shall at all times transmit dispatches over said telegraph line, and transport mails, troops and munitions of war, supplies, and public stores upon said railroad for the Government, whenever required to do so by any department thereof...
Seite 34 - But if an act be done under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it. '.The past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power...
Seite 116 - There are limitations on such power which grow out of the essential nature of all free governments. Implied reservations of individual rights, without which the social compact could not exist, and which are respected by all governments entitled to the name.
Seite 218 - A person has no property, no vested interest, in any rule of the common law. That is only one of the forms of municipal law, and is no more sacred than any other. Rights of property which have been created by the common law cannot be taken away without due process ; but the law itself, as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will, or even at the whim, of the legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations. Indeed, the great office of statutes is to remedy defects in the common law...
Seite 331 - I authorize and give up my right of governing myself, to this man or to this assembly of men, on this condition, that thou give up thy right to him and authorize all his actions in like manner.
Seite 663 - ... by the Secretary of the Treasury, in accordance with the provisions of this act, the said road...
Seite 663 - ... every alternate section of public land, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of five alternate sections per mile on each side of said railroad, on the line thereof, and within the limits of ten miles on each side of said road...