Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1902-08-08

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|-aactiug this s,aiate SENS % steer quit.
e,-aT 0f the main Argument. uEou whici
al th- cas- have gone. where similai
-.st1t@s have i-=eu he'll invalid. And, u
r-zari b. the statute Il lsJ5. u cannot
eth ary sh0E Z fairu=ss. = saii III
i-gisiafure dil not enact the laW
and fuIly Tass upon al questions o
-1usfitltioua.ity o. sxT--ii-uey involve
I'm th- subject. And il : admirte,
% a. hands that the legislature ma,
enact AVS. the operation OF susI-nsiol
q ahich shall II made 20 depend upol
\ contingency. This could not u que
: toned. With any sbow Of reason o
s1und irzic. Il has teen pFactie-d j
al frre states fOT hundreds of years. an
! 90 one has been lyux-eyed enough {
J. discover. or certainly bold enough to d.
p clare, that such legislation vas. on tina
account void or irregular. And il Is, j
ms Judgment, q singular fact. that thi
= remarkable discovery should first !
4 made Ia the free representative demo,
2 raei=s Of America: and in regard to tai
q, ing the sense OF these same people, upo
T, the exE-dieHcy Of legislation, where th
= legislators are coufessedly the mel
o agents aud instruments OF the people, I
. express their sovereign and superior vii
n 70 save the necessity of assembling gE
J.. people in mas; and when, from ii
very nature of the case, the represent
Il tive i, in honor and good faith, boan
y TO conform his action TO the viii and d
sire Of his constituents.
Does any one seriously doubt the pc
= feet propriety Of the legislature. upo
n. questions of general policy, aifactin
equally the whole state, acting upon th
y known viii OF the state, where that
y known: We suppose not Aud if ii
2 sessions Of the legislature were Ion
A enough, this might be ascertained dunn
the seSsion-as it is TO a considered
extent, sometimes-by petitions, a.
d legislation made to conform to such il
IA formally expressed will But if the Sc
a siOns are too short. and a more form
Al expression of the will of the people
desired, it amounts to the same thiT
7 practically, TO provide that the law sha
ie not come into full operation until ii
rs people have had an opportunity to 81
p whether they are prepared to conform
the required change. And in regard |
these great moral, social and economic
IL reforms, can 1t be doubted that the que
al ton Of the preparation of the publ
IF mind to sustain them. firmly and quif
", lies at the very foundation of q
= hopeful legislation on the subject? Al
T. Is this not precisely what American legi
d latuTes both state and national have Z
2 ways, in effect, although not in forI
N been accustomed TO do? The legisl
lures have the power to alter county al
IA town lines, and the places of holdir
at courts. But legislation upon these SUI
ne iects is made to conform, as far as pra
Of ticable, to the Supposed wishes of tho
interested: and numerous statutes up(
:. these important subjects, whose bindir
y force has never been questioned, have
n terms, been made to depend for the
e. whole force and vitality upon the futu
contingency of the expressed and recor
ed corporate vote OF those intereste
Congress passes laws, almost every 5,
sion, whose operation is made CONT
gent upon the revenue laws of forei:
rs states, or their navigation laws or reg
nd lations, and upon hundred other u
m. certainties, more or less affected by t
will or agency of voluntary beings
communities: and in most of the
a'' cases the suspension or operation of Il
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