Trumble v. Trumble’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions

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1. ““Is this act within the inhibition of that clause of the constitution providing that no bill shall contain more than one subject? This question is in most cases surrounded with difficulty. As was said in Kansas City & O. R. Co. v. Frey, 30 Neb. 790 , this clause of the constitution ‘was never designed to place the legislature in a strait jacket and prevent it from passing laws having but one object under an appropriate title.’ Provided the object of the law be single the whole law may be embraced in a single enactment, although it may require any number of details to accomplish the object. The purpose of the constitutional inhibition upon the other hand was to require each proposed measure to stand upon its own merits, and to apprise the members of the legislature of the purpose of the act when called upon to support or oppose it, and perhaps a still stronger purpose was to prohibit the joining of several measures in one act in order to combine the friends of each measure and pass the bill as a whole, where probably a majority' could not be procured in favor of any one of its different objects.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Oxnard Beet Sugar Co. v. State