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..... the purchase then made, or about to be made, at the rate of 30l. per hundred acres;13 the proceedings being regulated, so as to secure impartiality in the treatment of applicants, by an act of the 8th of april 1785.14 from this operation of the land office, thus opened, the reservations were confined, 1st, to islands within ..... , nicolaas van staphorst, pieter stadnitski, christiaan van eeghen, hendrick vollenhoven, and rutgert jan schimmelpenninck, having made it appear to the board of property, that they were, by force of arms of the enemies of the united states, prevented from making such settlement on the herein after described tract of land, as is required by the 9th section of ..... states, at the rate of three-fourths of a page 4 u.s. 170, 194 dollar for every acre, contained in the triangular tract bordering on lake erie. [ footnote 22 ] the language of the act ought, then, to be expounded, in consistency with the policy, that gave it birth; and this can only by done, by considering the .....
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..... imported articles of trade within its limits, which have not been mingled with the common mass of property therein, if, in its judgment, the end to be secured justifies and requires such action." 135 u.s. 135 u. s. 123 -124. thereupon congress immediately interposed, and by explicit legislation unequivocally manifested its purpose that ..... brought into the state. but to uphold the meaning of the word "arrival," which is necessary to support the state law, as construed below, forces the conclusion that the act of congress in question authorized state laws to forbid the bringing into the state at all. this follows from the fact that, if arrival means ..... even varying decisions at different periods. the earliest cases which came before this court concerning the extent of the police power of each state over intoxicating liquors within its borders were thurlow v. massachusetts, fletcher v. rhode island, and peirce v. new hampshire, decided in 1847, and reported under the name of the license cases, .....
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..... an accommodation is illustrated by federal compress co. v. mclean, 291 u. s. 17 . the tariff act of 1930 in this case, as the warehousing act in that case, confers upon licensees certain privileges, and secures to the federal government by means of these licensing provisions a measure of control over those engaged in the ..... , is legitimately concerned with safeguarding the interests of its own people in business dealings with corporations not of its own chartering, but who do business within its borders. union's business is localized in minnesota, it buys materials and services from people in that state, it enters into business relationships, as this case, a ..... 322 u. s. 209 proper field for state regulation complementary to federal regulation, for the treasury has provided that "a licensee having a license in force in one district may on application to the committee be granted a license to transact business in another district without further examination, provided it appears on investigation .....
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..... way of defendants, a construction of the statute page 335 u. s. 129 which would afford them the rights they claim -- but would secure those rights not by declaring an act of congress unconstitutional, but by an appropriate restriction of its scope. on its own motion, this court now gives a construction to the statute ..... again with the duty our system places on this court to say where the individual's freedom ends and the state's power begins. choice on that border, now as always delicate, is perhaps more so where the usual presumption supporting legislation is balanced by the preferred place given in our scheme to the ..... it is this difference, the very fact that the restriction seeks to contract the boundaries of expression and the right to hear previously considered open, which forces upon its authors the burden of justifying the contraction by demonstrating indubitable public advantage arising from the restriction outweighing all disadvantages, thus reversing the direction of presumptive .....
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..... ordinance, regulation, or custom, shall subject, or cause to be subjected, any inhabitant of any state or territory to the deprivation of any right secured or protected by the last preceding section of this act, or to different punishment, pains, or penalties on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color or race, than ..... the passage of laws or in the withholding of that protection which any emergency may require. if a state, by omission, neglects to give to every citizen within its borders a free, fair, and full exercise and enjoyment of his rights, it is the duty of the united states government to go into the state, and, by ..... , the acquittals of the substantive offense may have been on the ground that the evidence showed no giving of actual aid to williams when he obtained the confessions by force and violence. page 341 u. s. 96 the evidence, though insufficient to show that the five participated in the execution of the project, could nonetheless make overwhelmingly .....
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..... through which correctional officials are informed about complaints concerning prison conditions, and through which remedial action may be secured. see affidavit of director edwards, app. 127. with this presumably effective path available for the transmission of ..... "permitted" inmates to join the union, granted substantial injunctive relief, having concluded that prohibiting inmate-to-inmate solicitation "border[ed] on the irrational," and that, since bulk mailings to and meetings with inmates by the jaycees, alcoholics ..... on solicitation; [ footnote 2/6 ] overturning that ban page 433 u. s. 145 would sap all force from the rationale for excluding bulk mailings. the exclusion would then be left as one that unnecessarily increases the ..... grievances, the fact that the union's grievance procedures might be more "desirable" does not convert the prohibitory regulations into unconstitutional acts. see procunier v. martinez, 416 u. s. 396 , 416 u. s. 413 (1974); cf. greer v. spock, .....
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..... patent issued thereon be collaterally assailed. this view is untenable, and does not merit serious consideration. if it could be sustained, it would be subversive of all security in the judgments of ordinary tribunals, as well as in those of special tribunals like the land department. nor is there any pertinency in the observations as to ..... presented their selections to the surveyor general of the district including that state, and allow or disallow said selections and indemnity provided for according to the acts of congress in force touching the same at the time such selections were made, without prejudice to legal entries and rights of bona fide settlers under the homestead or ..... so far as she acquired any right in either, succeeded the united states and became privy to the latter in estate in respect to all lands within her borders, whether such as may be held in private or sovereign right. in this respect, no distinction can be made between the lands acquired by her through federal .....
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..... upon evidence establishing probable cause to believe him guilty of the offense charged, and when tried in the country to which he is sent, he is secured by the same act "a fair and impartial trial" -- not necessarily a trial according to the mode prescribed by this country for crimes committed against its laws, but a ..... passed a joint resolution, the preamble of which recited that the abhorrent conditions existing for more than three years in the island of cuba, so near our own borders, had shocked the moral sense of the people of the united states, had been a disgrace to civilization, culminating in the destruction of a united states battleship, ..... any part thereof, is occupied by or under the control of the united states, any person who shall violate, or who has violated, the criminal laws in force therein, by the commission of any of the following offenses, namely: murder, and assault with intent to commit murder; counterfeiting or altering money; counterfeiting certificates or coupons .....
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..... of the state by complainant or by any other person not authorized so to do by the laws of the state. he denies the acts of force charged against him, or that he proposes to use force. the other denials and admissions it is not necessary to set out. a dissolution of the injunction is prayed. the cases were consolidated, ..... the state, present and future, is broadly asserted. "the ruling principle of the law," counsel say, "is conservation, not commerce." it is true the means adopted to secure conservation page 221 u. s. 251 is more insistently brought forward than the right of conservation, and the power of the state over its corporations and over its highways and ..... statute of oklahoma offends. and, we repeat again, there is no question in the case of the regulating power of the state over the natural gas within its borders. the appellees concede the power, and, replying to the argument of appellant, based on the intention of appellees to erect large pumps to increase the natural rock pressure .....
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..... an arbitrary deprivation of liberty or property, or to transgress the due process clause. this brings us to a consideration of appellants' contention that the act contravenes the equal protection clause. that clause secures equal protection to all in the enjoyment of their rights under like circumstances. in re kemmler, supra; giozza v. tiernan, 148 u. s ..... the privilege of owning or controlling agricultural land within the state. the quality and allegiance of those who own, occupy and use the farm lands within its borders are matters of highest importance, and affect the safety and power of the state itself. the terraces, who are citizens, have no right safeguarded by the ..... of the other from compulsory military service either on land or sea, in the regular forces, or in the national guard, or in the militia; also from all contributions imposed in lieu of personal service, and from all forced loans or military exactions or contributions. the alien's formally declared bona fide intention to .....
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