Blaise Pascal on Nostr: "Under our form of government, the legislature is not supreme ... like other ...
"Under our form of government, the legislature is not supreme ... like other departments of government, it can only exercise such powers as have been delegated to it, and when it steps beyond that boundary, its acts, like those of the most humble magistrate in the state who transcends his jurisdiction, are utterly void."
-- Billings v. Hall
Source: 7 CA 1
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