...Justice Field, in an earlier case, 1 "was designed to interfere with the power of the state, sometimes termed its police power, to prescribe regulations...its resources, and add to its wealth and prosperity. . . . Regulations for these purposes may press with more or less weight upon one than upon another,...

...explicit about the uses to which such power may be put.77 The police power consists of authorization "to prescribe regulations to promote the health, peace,...state, develop its resources, and add to its wealth and prosperity."7* Echoing the origins of the concept, Chief Justice Taney noted that the police power...

...constitutions, which do not create but secure and protect them, yet it is within the power of the State to promote the health, peace, morals, education, and good order of the people by legislation to that end, and to regulate the use of property in which the public has such an interest...

...would declare that this regulation did not deprive the petitioner of his equal rights under the law: From the very necessities of society, legislation...special character, having these objects in view, must often be had in certain districts, such as for draining marshes and irrigating arid plains. Special...

...would declare that this regulation did not deprive the petitioner of his equal rights under the law: From the very necessities of society, legislation...special character, having these objects in view, must often be had in certain districts, such as for draining marshes and irrigating arid plains. Special...

...it is — nor any other amendment, was designed to interfere with the power of the State, sometimes termed its police power, to prescribe regulations...State, develop its resources, and add to its wealth and prosperity."34 As I demonstrated earlier, the "wealth and prosperity" of the Sierra Nevada now depends...

...decided in different jurisdictions. The Supreme Court declared that the police power allowed the states "to prescribe regulations to promote the health, peace,...its resources, and add to its wealth and prosperity" (Barbier v. Connolly, 31). In 1888, the Court declared that the police power allowed for the protection...

...jurists such as Stephen J. Field recognized the great range of the state's powers "to prescribe the regulations to promote the health, peace, morals,...industries of the state, develop its resources and add to the wealth and prosperity." In the famous 1877 Granger case of Munn v. Illinois, one of the first cases...

...it is — nor any other Amendment was designed to interfere with the power of the State, sometimes termed its police power, to prescribe regulations...morals, education, and good order of the people." The Court took the workers' side in a couple of other cases involving regulation of working hours,...