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* ''Spann v. City of Dallas'', 235 S.W. 513, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/Vol_235_SWR_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.") | * ''Spann v. City of Dallas'', 235 S.W. 513, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/Vol_235_SWR_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/ | * ''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.") | ||
* ''Rochelle v. Lane'', 148 S.W. 558, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/148_SW_558.pdf#page=3 560] (Tex. 1912) ("The judgment, being a judicial act, cannot be reviewed by an executive officer. . . . It is urged that previous Comptrollers have exercised the same power for many years. If that be true, it is time that it should be known in Texas that a disregard of the Constitution by the usurpation of power on the part of officials is not sanctified by its long continuance, and that each officer should confine his acts to the limits of his power. We would not disparage the zeal of respondent nor challenge the honesty of his purpose, but the superiority of the Constitution must be sustained until the sovereign voters shall change it.") | * ''Rochelle v. Lane'', 148 S.W. 558, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/148_SW_558.pdf#page=3 560] (Tex. 1912) ("The judgment, being a judicial act, cannot be reviewed by an executive officer. . . . It is urged that previous Comptrollers have exercised the same power for many years. If that be true, it is time that it should be known in Texas that a disregard of the Constitution by the usurpation of power on the part of officials is not sanctified by its long continuance, and that each officer should confine his acts to the limits of his power. We would not disparage the zeal of respondent nor challenge the honesty of his purpose, but the superiority of the Constitution must be sustained until the sovereign voters shall change it.") | ||