...occasion, and shall have full power and authority, and is hereby authorized from his Letters Patent, to make, ordain and establish all manner of wholesome and reasonable orders, laws, statutes, ordinances and instructions, not contrary to the laws of the realm of England, for the present government...

...regulated by mild, equal and efficient laws. 357 The legis'ature are invested with full power and authority to make, ordain and establish all manner of wholesome...reasonable orders, laws, statutes and ordinances, either with penalties or without, so as the same be not repugnant or contrary to the constitution,...

...full power and authority are hereby given and granted to the said general court, from time to time, to make, ordain, and establish all manner of wholesome...repugnant or contrary to this constitution, as they sh;ill judge to be for the good and welfare of this commonwealth, and for the government and ordering...

...members of whom it shall be composed shall judge to be for the good and welfare of the Commonwealth, to make, ordain and establish all manner of wholesome...reasonable orders, laws, statutes and ordinances, either with penalties or without, so only that they be not repugnant or contrary to the constitution...

...section of chapter I. of the Constitution, is limited by the provision that they shall be such laws "as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of the Commonwealth." Every member, therefore, as a member also of the body politic, has an interest in...

...Massachusetts imposes no such restraint ; but on the contrary expressly authorizes the legislature " to make, ordain, and establish, all manner of wholesome...and instructions, either with penalties or without." Const. of Mass. c. 1, § 1, art. 4. II. The section in question declares the consequences of such illegal...

...establish all manner of wholesome and reasonable orders, laws, statutes, ordinances, directions arid instructions, either with penalties or without, so...repugnant or contrary to this Constitution, as they may judge for the benefit and welfare of this State, and for the governing and ordering thereof, and...

...full power and authority are hereby given and granted to the said General Court, from time to time, to make, ordain and establish all manner of wholesome and reasonable orders, laws, statutes, ordinances, directions and instructions, either with penalties or without, so as the same be not repugnant...

...vested " in the General Court, to whom " full power and authority are hereby given and granted ... to make, ordain, and establish all manner of wholesome and reasonable orders, laws, statutes, ordinances," in the broadest possible 1 Federalist, No. 41. terms, " as they may judge for the benefit...

...provision of the statute unconstitutional and void. The ample authority conferred upon the legislature to make, ordain and establish all manner of wholesome and reasonable orders, lawa and statutes, which it shall judge to be for the good and welfare of the Commonwealth, necessarily...