...certain class it is not obnoxious to the charge of a denial of equal protection ; hut the classification must always rest upon some difference which bears...respect to which the classification is proposed, and cam never be made arbitrarily and without any such basis. Two citations suffice to illustrate the line...

...illustrations) are distinctions which do not furnish any proper basis for the attempted classification. That must always rest upon some difference which bears...never be made arbitrarily and without any such basis." Under the admitted allegations of the complaint it seems to me clear that a proper basis existed for...

...not. It may not say that all men beo ft t> in «i mil cli n 1 1 a 1 SMI a t"Vin a classification. That must always rest upon some difference which bears...never be made arbitrarily, and without any such basis. * * * * » » * If it be said that this penalty is cast only upon corporations, that to them special...

...inclined to forget, namely, that all distinctions, exceptions, exemptions and classifications in any law "must always rest upon some difference which bears...respect to which the classification is proposed and never be made arbitrarily and without such basis." Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co., 184 IT. S. 540,...

...adaptation of different rules to the different classes was admitted, but it was said that the classification "must always rest upon some difference which bears...never be made arbitrarily and without any such basis." It was also held that the debts, the failure to pay which gave rise to the penalty, were not so different...

...and associations, in order to subserve public objecte. For this court has held that classification Supreme Court of the United States in such shape...York and C. W. Smith, receiver, that this case was 14th Amendment forbids tils. ... No duty reste more imperatively upon the courts than the enforcement...

...These are distinctions which do not furnish any proper basis for the attempted classification. That must always rest upon some difference which bears...reasonable and Just relation to the act in respect to wliich the classification Is proposed, and can never be made arbitrarily, and without any such basis....

...corporations, and associations In order to subserve public objects; for this court has held that classification 'must always rest upon some difference which bears...But arbitrary selection can never be justified by calliug it Classification. The equal protection demanded by the fourteenth amendment forbids this....

...rule, however, is not without Its limitations, for it Is equally well settled that the classification must always rest upon some difference which bears...never be made arbitrarily and without any such basis. Is the present act, levying one rate of tax on oil and gas, and a lesser rate on ores bearing lead,...

...the court, in Gulf, etc., R. Co. v. Bills, 165 Ü. S. 150, 159, 17 Sup. Ct. 255, 258, 41 L. Ed. 666: "But arbitrary selection can never be justified by...demanded by the fourteenth amendment forbids this. No language Is more worthy of frequent and thoughtful consideration than these words of Mr. Justice Matthews,...