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Home Building & Loan Assn. v. Blaisdell 290 U.S. 398

Home Building & Loan Association. v. Blaisdell 290 U.S. 398

290 U.S. 398 | 1934-01-08

Home Building & Loan Assn. v. Blaisdell

290 U.S. 398

Home Building & Loan Assn. v. Blaisdell (No. 370)

Argued: November 8, 9, 1933
Decided: January 8, 1934

189 Minn. 422, 448; 249 N.W. 334, 893, affirmed.

Syllabus

1. Emergency does not increase constitutional power, nor diminish constitutional restrictions. P. 425.

2. Emergency may, however, furnish occasion for exercise of power possessed. P. 426.

3. The clause providing that no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts is not to be applied with literal exactness, like a mathematical formula, but is one of the broad clauses of the Constitution which require...