“d) all informal practices of similar import and effect, which the Court similarly deems to be acts of grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction; and”
2014, Speech: Sponsorship Speech for the FY 2015 National Budget
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2014, Speech: Sponsorship Speech for the FY 2015 National Budget

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Context: The complete independence of the Courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain specified exceptions to the Legislative authority; such, for instance, as that it shall pass no bills of attainder, no ex post facto laws, and the like. Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of the Courts of justice; whose duty it must be to declare all Acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing.

Letter to William Charles Jarvis (28 September 1820)
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Laver v. Fielder (1862), 32 Beav. 13.

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