 | United States. Supreme Court, Henry Wheaton - 1819
...sustaining the authority of Congress to pass other laws for the accomplishment of the same objects. The government which has a right to do an act, and has imposed on it the duty of performing that act, must, according to the dictates of reason, be al• VOL. JV.... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1837
...the case already nlluded to, that "the government which has a right to do an act, and ha« imposed on it the duty of performing that act, must be allowed to select the mean*." Sir, I am conetrained to doubt the validity of this doctrine when carried to its full extent.... | |
 | James Madison Porter - 1837 - 59 str.
...sustaining tho authority of Congress to pass other laws for the accomplishment of the same objects. The government which has a right to do an act, and has imposed on it, the duty of performing that net, must, according' to the dictates of reason, be allowed to select"... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1838
...sustaining the authority of congress to pass other laws for the accomplishment of the same objects. The government which has a right to do an act, and has imposed on it, the duty of performing that act, must, according to the dictates of reason, be allowed to select... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 728 str.
...sustaining the authority of congress to pass other laws for the ac... complishment of the same objects. The government which has a right to do an act, and has imposed on it the duty of performing that act, must, according to the dictates of reason, be allowed to select... | |
 | Charles Bishop Goodrich - 1853 - 343 str.
...provisions which have been recited. In the language of the supreme court of the United States, the government which has a right to do an act, and has imposed on it the duty of performing that act, must, according to the dictates of reason, be allowed to select... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860
...action ; and its laws, when made in pursuance of the constitution, form the supreme law of the land. The government which has a right to do an act, and has imposed on it the duty of performing that act, must, according to the dictates of reason, be allowed to select... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - 1864 - 246 str.
...is to be the judge of the appropriateness and necessity of the means to be employed, thus:— " The Government which has a right to do an act, and has...imposed upon it the duty of performing that act, must, according to the dictates of reason, be allowed to select the means." Thus, then, the matter stands.... | |
 | 1868
...does not profess to enumerate the means by which the powers it confers may be executed ;" that " the government which has a right to do an act, and has...imposed upon it the duty of performing that act, must, according to the dictates of reason, be allowed to select the means." By the aid of the profound views... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - 1868
...Maryland, 4th Wheaton, pp. 409 and 4УО.) The court, in speaking of the power of Congress, say : " The government which has a right to do an act, and has imposed on it the duty of performing that act, must, according to the dictates of reason, be allowed to select... | |
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The government which has a right to do an act, and has imposed on it the duty of performing that act, must, according to the dictates of reason, be allowed to select the means ; and those who contend that it may not select any appropriate means, that... 
