Baecher v. McFarland

These Norfolk ordinances are excellent examples of the valid legislative exercise of police power. Both have been violated.

Section 159 of our Constitution declares that “the exercise of the police, power of the State shall never be abridged.” It is an indicium of sovereignty and rests upon no Constitutional grant of power. Richmond v. Virginia Ry., etc., Co., 141 Va. 69, 126 S. E. 353.

In Barbier v. Connolly, 113 U. S. 27, 31, 5 S. Ct. 357, 359, 28 L. Ed. 923, the court, dealing with the Fourteenth Amendment, said:

“But neither the amendment, broad and comprehensive as it is, nor any other…