...the general good. Though in many respects special in their character, they do not furnish just ground of complaint if they operate alike upon all persons...property under the same circumstances and conditions.*'" However, as Joseph Tussman and Jacobus tenBroek point out in their elaboration on the logic entailed...

...the general good. Though in many respects special in their character, they do not furnish just ground of complaint if they operate alike upon all persons and property under the same circumstances and conditions.60 However, as Joseph Tussman and Jacobus tenBroek point out in their elaboration on the...

...that while "class legislation, discriminating against some and favoring others, is prohibited, . . . legislation which, in carrying out a public purpose,...within the sphere of its operation it affects alike all persons similarly situated, is not within the amendment." 113 US 27, 32 (1885). In 1920, we similarly...

...delivering the opinion of this court in Barbier v. Connolly, 113 US 27, 32, of the equality clause, said, "Class legislation, discriminating against some and...within the sphere of its operation it affects alike all persons similarly situated, is not within the amendment." In Hayes v. Missouri, 120 US 68, the...

...good. Though, in many respects, necessarily special in their character, they do not furnish just ground of complaint if they operate alike upon all persons...prohibited, but legislation which, in carrying out a public One commentator has noted that although many legal writers distinguished between the exercise of eminent...