State ex rel. Brewster v. Knapp

Citations

• 99 Kan. 852

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>T. Legislative Power — limitations. The doctrine is reiterated that the legislature has no inherent power, but only such as it derives from the people through the constitution.</p> <p>2. Public Roads — State Aid in Construction — Unconstitutional. Section 8 of article 11 of the constitution is equally binding on every member of each of the three coequal and coordinate departments of state government and. precludes the appropriation of the state's money to aid in the construction of public roads.</p> <p>3. Same. House bill No. 4, Laws of 1917, is, by reason of the prohibition expressed in section 8 of article 11, unconstitutional and void.</p>