Industrial LibertyG. P. Putnam's sons, 1888 - 414 pages |
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Page 47
... profit , and afterwards recouping their losses by the use of their power in exacting tribute from their local patrons . But those who reason in this way need not go far in their process of ratiocination to conclude that all natural law ...
... profit , and afterwards recouping their losses by the use of their power in exacting tribute from their local patrons . But those who reason in this way need not go far in their process of ratiocination to conclude that all natural law ...
Page 76
... profits of the railway cor- poration , which they control but do not own . Thus there is established , by legal fiction , a duality where- by there is diverted from the real owner to the ownership of the custodian a part of that ...
... profits of the railway cor- poration , which they control but do not own . Thus there is established , by legal fiction , a duality where- by there is diverted from the real owner to the ownership of the custodian a part of that ...
Page 79
... profits of lands , the applying of them to the use of any person for his life or any shorter time ; trusts for the accu- mulation of rents and profits for the time by law allowed ; for the benefit of any person , where the trust is ...
... profits of lands , the applying of them to the use of any person for his life or any shorter time ; trusts for the accu- mulation of rents and profits for the time by law allowed ; for the benefit of any person , where the trust is ...
Page 83
... profit , this between the corporation and the public concerns the whole people ; and this public concern is the essence of the consideration by which the franchise came into being - it is the whole motive for which it was conferred ...
... profit , this between the corporation and the public concerns the whole people ; and this public concern is the essence of the consideration by which the franchise came into being - it is the whole motive for which it was conferred ...
Page 84
... profit . This we may designate , for the sake of dis- tinction , as the lesser trust . Second , that which sub- sists between the quasi - public corporation and the citizens , as political equals . This , having an essen- tially public ...
... profit . This we may designate , for the sake of dis- tinction , as the lesser trust . Second , that which sub- sists between the quasi - public corporation and the citizens , as political equals . This , having an essen- tially public ...
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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.