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* ''Travelers' Insurance Co. v. Marshall'', 76 S.W.2d 1007, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/076_S.W.2d_1007.pdf#page=4 1010] (Tex. 1934) (citation omitted) ("We are asked, however, to hold that, under the ''police power'', one of the powers of government vitalized by emergency conditions, the Legislature had the authority to pass the measure before us. We are asked to do this, although the Bill of Rights, section 16, expressly prohibits the enactment of laws impairing the obligation of contracts. Can we do this? Would we be warranted in saying that . . . . Obviously all these questions must be answered in the negative. This is so because the pronouncements of the Constitution are 'imperious, supreme and paramount.'") | * ''Travelers' Insurance Co. v. Marshall'', 76 S.W.2d 1007, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/076_S.W.2d_1007.pdf#page=4 1010] (Tex. 1934) (citation omitted) ("We are asked, however, to hold that, under the ''police power'', one of the powers of government vitalized by emergency conditions, the Legislature had the authority to pass the measure before us. We are asked to do this, although the Bill of Rights, section 16, expressly prohibits the enactment of laws impairing the obligation of contracts. Can we do this? Would we be warranted in saying that . . . . Obviously all these questions must be answered in the negative. This is so because the pronouncements of the Constitution are 'imperious, supreme and paramount.'") | ||
* ''Spann v. City of Dallas'', 235 S.W. 513, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/ | * ''Spann v. City of Dallas'', 235 S.W. 513, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/235_SW_513.pdf#page=3 515] (Tex. 1921) ("The police power is subject to the limitations imposed by the Constitution upon every power of government; and it will not be suffered to invade or impair the fundamental liberties of the citizen, those natural rights which are the chief concern of the Constitution and for whose protection it was ordained by the people. All grants of power are to be interpreted in the light of the maxims of Magna Charta and the Common Law as transmuted into the Bill of Rights; and those things which those maxims forbid cannot be regarded as within any grant of authority made by the people to their agents.") | ||
* ''St. Louis Sw. Ry. Co. of Tex. v. Griffin'', 171 S.W. 703, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/171_SW_703.pdf#page=2 704] (Tex. 1914) ("The citizen has the liberty of contract as a natural right which is beyond the power of the government to take from him. The liberty to make contracts includes the corresponding right to refuse to accept a contract or to assume such liability as may be proposed. When Griffin entered the service of the railroad company for an indefinite time, the law reserved to him the right to quit the service at any time without cause or notice to the employer. The railroad company had the corresponding right to discharge him at any time without cause or notice. The rights of the parties were mutual.") | * ''St. Louis Sw. Ry. Co. of Tex. v. Griffin'', 171 S.W. 703, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/171_SW_703.pdf#page=2 704] (Tex. 1914) ("The citizen has the liberty of contract as a natural right which is beyond the power of the government to take from him. The liberty to make contracts includes the corresponding right to refuse to accept a contract or to assume such liability as may be proposed. When Griffin entered the service of the railroad company for an indefinite time, the law reserved to him the right to quit the service at any time without cause or notice to the employer. The railroad company had the corresponding right to discharge him at any time without cause or notice. The rights of the parties were mutual.") | ||