Reid v. Topper

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that “state constitutions are not grants of power, but instead are limitations thereof’
• “Unlike the Federal Constitution, state constitutions are not grants of power, but instead are limitations thereof.”
• “The Legislature is vested with the whole of the legislative power of the state, and may deal with any subject within the scope of civil government unless it is restrained by the provisions of the Constitution ....” (citation omitted)
• upholding constitutionality of statute allowing reimbursement of legislators’ expenses

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).