 The correctness of this principle, so far as respects general legislation, can never be controverted 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.  American Quarterly Review - 第115页编者： - 1830全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1836 - 680 页
...competent to pass; and one legislature cannot abridge the powers of a succeeding legislature. But if un act be done under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it. Ibid. 1-io. 37. When a law is, in its nature, a contract, arid absolute rights have vested under that... | |
 | James Madison Porter - 1837 - 72 页
...competent to pass ; and that one legislature cannot abridge the powers of a succeeding legislature. The correctness of this principle, so far as respects...past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power. Conveyances have been made, those conveyances have vested legal estates, and, if those estates may... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1838 - 696 页
...compc.ent to pass; and that one legislature cannot abiidge the powers of a succeeding legislature. The correctness of this principle, so far as respects...past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power. Conveyances have been made, those conveyances have vested legal estates, and, if those estates may... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 页
...cannot impair the obligation of contracts 133-138 may repeal acts passed by a former legislature 134 but if an act be done under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it ... 134 LIBERTY, civil, consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1858 - 764 页
...cannot abridge the powers of a succeeding Legislature. The correctness of this principle," he says, " so far as respects general legislation, can never...under a law, a succeeding Legislature cannot undo it. When, then, a law is in its nature a contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights; and... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1040 页
...competent to pass ; and that one legislature cannot abridge the powers of a succeeding legislature. The correctness of this principle, so far as respects...past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power. Conveyances have been made ; those conveyances have vested legal estates ; and, if those estates may... | |
 | California. Legislature. Assembly - 1853 - 1292 页
...competent to pass ; and that one Legislature cannot abridge the powers of a succeeding Legislature." " The correctness of this principle, so far as respects...past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power. Conveyances have been made, — those conveyances have vested legal estates ; and, if those estates... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 754 页
...competent to pass ; and that one legislature cannot abridge the powers of a succeeding legislature. The correctness of this principle, so far as respects...past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power. Conveyances have been made, those conveyances have vested legal estates, and, if those estates may... | |
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