Industrial LibertyG. P. Putnam's sons, 1888 - 414 pages |
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... accordance with natural law . Thus , while he seats the power in the majority , and so far indi- cates democracy , his assumption is , that the power so conferred , unlike a power derived from agree- 1 66 ' Spirit of the Laws , " Book ...
... accordance with natural law . Thus , while he seats the power in the majority , and so far indi- cates democracy , his assumption is , that the power so conferred , unlike a power derived from agree- 1 66 ' Spirit of the Laws , " Book ...
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... accordance with this view , the amendments to the Constitution which have been engrafted on it since the war cannot be construed as seriously marring the autonomy of the States . Mr. Justice Miller has lately expressed himself to this ...
... accordance with this view , the amendments to the Constitution which have been engrafted on it since the war cannot be construed as seriously marring the autonomy of the States . Mr. Justice Miller has lately expressed himself to this ...
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... accordance with the later development , and sufficient to support it . To recapitulate briefly . There exists this differ- ence between the liberty indicated by the Declara- tion of Independence and the Constitution , and that political ...
... accordance with the later development , and sufficient to support it . To recapitulate briefly . There exists this differ- ence between the liberty indicated by the Declara- tion of Independence and the Constitution , and that political ...
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... accordance with this principle shall be binding . Thus , under the operation of this law , it will be found that such interference with con- tract as railway discrimination cannot exist ; nor can such other interference with private ...
... accordance with this principle shall be binding . Thus , under the operation of this law , it will be found that such interference with con- tract as railway discrimination cannot exist ; nor can such other interference with private ...
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... accordance with the policy of Transfer Company , one of the companies belonging to the Standard Oil Company , as a " commission , " and that this sum was paid to the Standard Oil Company not only upon shipments made by the Standard Oil ...
... accordance with the policy of Transfer Company , one of the companies belonging to the Standard Oil Company , as a " commission , " and that this sum was paid to the Standard Oil Company not only upon shipments made by the Standard Oil ...
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Page 162 - Commission (and produce books and papers if so ordered) and give evidence touching the matter in question ; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof.
Page 162 - Any of the district courts of the United States within the jurisdiction of which such inquiry is carried on...
Page 162 - The claim that any such testimony or evidence may tend to criminate the person giving such evidence shall not excuse such witness from testifying; but such evidence or testimony shall not be used against such person on the trial of any criminal proceeding.
Page 22 - Humboldt, so eminent both as a savant and as a politician, made the text of a treatise— that "the end of man, or that which is prescribed by the eternal or immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole...
Page 99 - Said Commissioners shall not engage in any other business, vocation, or employment. No vacancy in the Commission shall impair the right of the remaining Commissioners to exercise all the powers of the Commission.
Page 41 - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom...
Page 337 - ... one of the powers belonging to sovereignty in other civilized nations, and not expressly withheld from Congress by the Constitution; we are irresistibly impelled...
Page 41 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Page 4 - He was greater as an opponent of tyranny than as a deviser of liberties; the fetters imposed on royal autocracy, cumbrous and entangled as they were, seem to have been an integral part of his policy ; the means he took for admitting the nation to self-government wear very much the form of an occasional or party expedient, which a longer tenure of undivided power might have led him either to develop or to discard.
Page 9 - I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.