Sentences with phrase «police power of the state»

The equal protection of the laws thus came to mean the equality before the law of all lifestyles, and implicitly negated the age - old police power of the states to legislate for the protection of the public health, safety, welfare, and morals.

Pramilla Malick, leader of an Orange County citizens group that has fought the power plant, called the FERC official's decision «an unprecedented abuse of process and law,» and urged Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Basil Seggos, the state's environmental conservation commissioner, «to use the police powers of the state to protect our water and prevent any construction activity.»

Ma Bell provided and still provides a near - universal service, one which has huge barriers to entry, and that service is one that we can, courtesy of the police power of the state, depend upon.

I can not imagine that any such performance could constitutionally be punished or restrained, even though the police power of a State is now buttressed by the Twenty - first Amendment.

«It is clearly within the police power of the state to enact reasonable measures to ensure that pregnant

«The police power of the state must be exercised in subordination to the provisions of the U.S. Constitution.»

Such laws must have some real relation to the objects named in them, in order to be upheld as valid exercises of the police power of the state.

We only held that New Hampshire's method of controlling travel on the streets of cities was permissible under the police power of the states.

It is no objection to the assertion of the power to regulate interstate commerce that its exercise is attended by the same incidents which attend the exercise of the police power of the states.

'' [Prior] cases leave in no doubt the proposition that the conferring of discretionary power upon administrative boards to grant or withhold permission to carry on a trade or business which is the proper subject of regulation within the police power of the state is not violative of rights secured by the Fourteenth Amendment.

What a strange picture... I would not have expected a (federal) government with an avowedly conservative bent to deny funding to either the military or the police powers of the state!

Laws forbidding the intermarriage of the two races may be said in a technical sense to interfere with the freedom of contract, and yet have been universally recognized as within the police power of the State.

Negotiating for an outcome that will affect legal rights and subject an individual to potential contempt and the police power of the state if agreed provisions are allegedly violated is the province of lawyers, and lawyers only, and not mental health professionals.