Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois, Volume 274 |
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Page 142 - In all other cases where a general law can be made applicable, no special law shall be enacted.
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Page 486 - The fourteenth amendment does not profess to secure to all persons in the United States the benefit of the same laws and the same remedies. Great diversities in these respects may exist in two States separated only by an imaginary line.
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