Legality of Cannabis by U.S. Jurisdiction

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"It is the province of the judiciary to say what the law is, or what it was. The legislature can only say what it shall be."

- in Movimiento Democracia, Inc. v. Johnson, 2016 and 65 similar citations

—the Court declined to set aside the Georgia Legislature's sale of lands on the theory that its members were corruptly motivated in passing the bill.

- in Palmer v. Thompson, 1971 and 70 similar citations

A grant in its own nature amounts to an extinguishment of the right of the grantor, and implies a contract not to reassert that right; a party, therefore, is always estopped by his own grant.

- in Cooper v. Roberts, 1856 and 70 similar citations

—the first Indian case to reach this Court—that the Indian tribes have lost any "right of governing every person within their limits except themselves."

- in Montana v. United States, 1981 and 87 similar citations

—decided in 1810, this Court speaking through Chief Justice John Marshall held that a law of the State of Georgia which attempted to terminate grants of land made by the State under authority of a prior state law was invalid as a violation of the Contract Clause.

- in El Paso v. Simmons, 1965 and 55 similar citations

Our Constitution wisely places limits on powers of legislative majorities to act, but the declaration of such limits by this Court "is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which ought seldom, if ever, to be decided in the affirmative, in a doubtful case."

- in Texas v. Johnson, 1989 and 72 similar citations

I, § 9. "An Ex Post Facto law is one which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed."

- in US v. Hawley, 2011 and 140 similar citations

Chief Justice Marshall said, "It is not on slight implication and vague conjecture that the legislature is to be pronounced to have transcended its powers and its acts to be considered void. The opposition between the Constitution and the law should be such that the judge feels a clear and strong conviction of their incompatibility with each other

- in Knox v. Lee, 1871 and 150 similar citations

Assuming the inconsistency, it is sufficient to say that the constitutional prohibition: "No State shall... pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts," as its terms indicate, is directed against legislative action only, and does not reach erroneous or inconsistent decisions by the courts.

- in Frank v. Mangum, 1915 and 35 similar citations

This is perfectly consistent with our previous decision in Blondes, wherein we stated: Our holding today insures the degree of separation of powers inherent in our form of government

- in State v. Holton, 2010 and 33 similar citations