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Quotation from Hepburn v. Griswold by Supreme Court of the United States
“It is difficult to conceive what act would take private property without process of law if such an act would not.”
Hepburn v. Griswold, Opinion of the Court (Chief Justice Chase) (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource))
Chase concludes that forcing creditors to accept depreciated paper deprives them of property under the Fifth Amendment.
Citation: "It is difficult to conceive what act would take private property without process of law if such an act would not." — Supreme Court of the United States, Hepburn v. Griswold, Opinion of the Court (Chief Justice Chase) (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource)). (id hepburn-v-griswold-q3)
Portrait: Mathew Brady, Portrait of Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, officer of the United States government (1860–1865, full version) (1), Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain.
