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American and English Corporation Cases (Volume 18); A Collection of All Corporation Cases, Both Private and Municipal (Excepting Railway Cases), ... States, England, and Canada [1883-1894]
Canada. Courts
Paperback. General Books LLC 2012-01-17.
ISBN 9781153964586
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This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1888. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... to determine whether they will enact a law for their special benefit. If they decline, under the provisions of the first and second sections, to legislate on the subject, then the law has no existence." From these quotations from the adjudications of this court it will be readily seen that they are in entire harmony with each other. The rule to be deduced from them is plainly this: that in certain classes of cases, as already mentioned, relating to mere local or municipal objects, it is perfectly competent for the Legislature, by a law complete in itself, --one denouncing penalties for its violation, --to submit to the people of certain localities to determine by their votes whether some small minor regulation, incident to, but not necessary to, the existence of the law itself, shall be adopted. But if the law is not complete, if it has no self-enforcing penalty, when it leaves the hands of the Legislature; if it is a mere proposal to the people of certain localities to determine whether certain printed matter which appears on the statutebooks shall become a law or no, --then such a proposal is a clear delegation of legislative power, and for that reason unconstitutional. The long and the short of the matter is this: that, while the law may call the vote of the people into existence, the vote of the people cannot call the law into existence. The law may authorize the vote, but the vote cannot authorize the law. Of course, the remark that the Legislature may pass a certain law, complete in itself, and submit certain incidents thereof to a popular vote, --incidents not at all affecting the vitality or validity of the law itself, --is subject to those constitutional restrictions as to local or special laws already noted. The rule announced in this State as to the
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