People Ex Rel. Chicago Dryer Co. v. City of Chicago

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• “The legislature cannot abdicate its functions or subject citizens and their interests to any but lawful public agencies, and a delegation of any sovereign power of government to private citizens cannot be sustained nor their assumption of it justified.”
• “The legislature cannot abdicate its functions or subject citizens and their interests to any but lawful public agencies, and a delegation of any sovereign power of government to private citizens cannot be sustained nor their assumption of it justified.”
• “The legislatur e cannot abdicate its functions or subject citizens and their interests to any but lawful public agencies, and a delegation of any sovereign power of gover nment to private citizens cannot be sustained nor their assumption of it justified.”
• “it is also recognized that the ultimate operation of law may by its own terms be made to depend upon a contingency, such as an affirmative vote of the electors in a given district or upon the action of some municipality, commission, or other public agency named in the act”
• “it is also recognized that the ultimate operation of law may by its own terms be made to depend upon a contingency, such as an affirmative vote of the electors in a given district or upon the action of some municipality, commission, or other public agency named in the act”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).