 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1921 - 706 էջ
...congress is unconstitutional] should never be made except in a clear case. Every possible presumption is in favor of the validity of a statute, and this continues...degree on a strict observance of this salutary rule." The great Chief Justice Shaw, in Wellington et al., Petitioners, 16 Pick., 87 (1834), speaking for... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - 1897 - 598 էջ
...to the constitution." In the Sinking Fund Cases the same court said: "Every possible presumption is in favor of the validity of a statute, and this continues...in no small degree on a strict observance of this statutory rule." 99 US 700; Powell v. Pennsylvania, 127 US 678. In this last case the constitutionality... | |
 | 1906 - 2090 էջ
...raising a doubt." Legal Tender Cases, 12 Wall. 4.57, 531, 20 L. Ed. 287. "Every possible presumption is in favor of the validity of a statute, and this continues...until the contrary is shown beyond a rational doubt. * * * The safety of our institutions depends in no small degree on a strict observance of this salutary... | |
 | 1897 - 1036 էջ
...States; but this declaration should never be made except In a clear case. Every possible presumption Is in favor of the validity of a statute, and this continues...degree on a strict observance of this salutary rule." I regard these words as particularly applicable to the dealings by this court with the proceedings... | |
 | 1915 - 1230 էջ
...presumption is in favor of the validity of the statute until the contrary is shown beyond a reasonable doubt. One branch of the government cannot encroach...degree on a strict observance of this salutary rule. Sinking Fund Cases, 99 US 727, 25 L. Ed. 504 ; Livingston v. Darlington, 101 US 407, 25 L. Ed. 1015;... | |
 | 1910 - 1148 էջ
...separate, Independent and coordinate departments, the legislative, the executive and the judicial. One branch of the government cannot encroach on the...degree on a strict observance of this salutary rule. It Is not one of the functions of a court to make up the records of the proceedings of legislative... | |
 | 1909 - 764 էջ
...the view expressed by Chief Justice Waite in the Sinking Fund Cases : " Every possible presumption is in favor of the validity of a statute, and this continues...until the contrary is shown beyond a rational doubt." ' The courts still repeat expressions of this character, but it is undoubtedly true that they have... | |
 | 1913 - 1134 էջ
...CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (§ 48*)— CONSTRUCTION IN FAVOR OF CONSTITUTIONALITY. Every possible presumption is in favor of the validity of a statute, and this continues until the contrary ig shown beyond a rational doubt. [Ed. Note.— For other cases, see Constitutional Law, Cent Dig.... | |
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Every possible presumption is in favor of the validity of a statute, and this continues until the contrary is shown beyond a rational doubt. One branch of the government cannot encroach on the domain of another without danger. The safety of our institutions... 
