Industrial LibertyG. P. Putnam's sons, 1888 - 414 pages |
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... established the fundamental law in support of fuller individual liberty . In the new country , un- encumbered by traditionary restraints , this instinct had larger scope ; and it is to it , therefore , that we owe all of the true ...
... established the fundamental law in support of fuller individual liberty . In the new country , un- encumbered by traditionary restraints , this instinct had larger scope ; and it is to it , therefore , that we owe all of the true ...
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... , a persistence , an enlarge- ment of scope , they established political institutions that should work in harmony with these . The history of the Convention furnishes abundant evidence that there 18 INDUSTRIAL LIBERTY.
... , a persistence , an enlarge- ment of scope , they established political institutions that should work in harmony with these . The history of the Convention furnishes abundant evidence that there 18 INDUSTRIAL LIBERTY.
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... established , every corporation or association , whether political or commercial , which is public or quasi - public ... establish be tolerated . I will illustrate this more fully hereafter . The definition is of universal application ...
... established , every corporation or association , whether political or commercial , which is public or quasi - public ... establish be tolerated . I will illustrate this more fully hereafter . The definition is of universal application ...
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... imagination . To many minds it seems as if those established principles of industry and econom- ics which have proven sufficient for the simpler re- lations of life , as they have hitherto existed , 46 INDUSTRIAL LIBERTY.
... imagination . To many minds it seems as if those established principles of industry and econom- ics which have proven sufficient for the simpler re- lations of life , as they have hitherto existed , 46 INDUSTRIAL LIBERTY.
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... establish had been rigorously guarded from the beginning , with a vivid jealousy to protect this freedom above all things by the strict adjustment of all industries to the institutions , whilst , doubtless , the eagerness for rapid ...
... establish had been rigorously guarded from the beginning , with a vivid jealousy to protect this freedom above all things by the strict adjustment of all industries to the institutions , whilst , doubtless , the eagerness for rapid ...
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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.