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... Standards 49 Constitutional and Common Law Standards are Permanent , but Court Opinions of Them are Changeable and Should be Progressive . 61 The Saloon Judicially Declared to be a Public Menace 67 VIII The Saloon is Not a ...
... Standards 49 Constitutional and Common Law Standards are Permanent , but Court Opinions of Them are Changeable and Should be Progressive . 61 The Saloon Judicially Declared to be a Public Menace 67 VIII The Saloon is Not a ...
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... standard , the one is surely lawful , and the other just as certainly an outlaw . This With a view to submitting the reasonableness of this contention , to the Supreme people , the ques- tion is feebly argued in the following pages ...
... standard , the one is surely lawful , and the other just as certainly an outlaw . This With a view to submitting the reasonableness of this contention , to the Supreme people , the ques- tion is feebly argued in the following pages ...
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... standard the insti- tution is to be weighed and what estimate we should place upon it . We can not well determine the common law standard without first defining the , common law , THE COMMON LAW Defined The common law is defined to The ...
... standard the insti- tution is to be weighed and what estimate we should place upon it . We can not well determine the common law standard without first defining the , common law , THE COMMON LAW Defined The common law is defined to The ...
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... - mon law and to make application of them to specific cases , and , in doing so , they have announced the tests and standards by which we are to ascertain whether an act or a pursuit is lawful or unlawful 40 THE LEGALIzed Outlaw.
... - mon law and to make application of them to specific cases , and , in doing so , they have announced the tests and standards by which we are to ascertain whether an act or a pursuit is lawful or unlawful 40 THE LEGALIzed Outlaw.
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... standard of the com- mon law announced , from these sources , as the safety , the peace , the health , the morals of the peo- ple , the public good , the general welfare , the self- preservation of society , the public order and the ...
... standard of the com- mon law announced , from these sources , as the safety , the peace , the health , the morals of the peo- ple , the public good , the general welfare , the self- preservation of society , the public order and the ...
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Page 214 - To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained ? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation.
Page 3 - They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
Page 59 - If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it are themselves wrong, and should be silenced and swept away. If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality— its universality; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension— its enlargement.
Page 295 - God give us men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands. Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not lie...
Page 26 - It is maintained by the advocates of the bank that its constitutionality in all its features ought to be considered as settled by precedent, and by the decision of the supreme court. To this conclusion, I cannot assent. Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority, and should not be regarded as deciding questions of constitutional power, except where the acquiescence of the people and the states can be considered as well settled.
Page 244 - Anything which is injurious to health, or is indecent, or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property...
Page 126 - The police of a State, in a comprehensive sense, embraces its whole system of internal regulation, by which the State seeks, not only to preserve the public order, and to prevent offenses against the State, but also to establish for the intercourse of citizens with citizens those rules of good manners and good neighborhood which are calculated to prevent a conflict of rights, and to insure to each the uninterrupted enjoyment of his own so far as is reasonably consistent with a like enjoyment of rights...
Page 224 - Municipal law, thus understood, is properly defined to be "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong.
Page 152 - That government," says Story, "can scarcely be deemed to be free where the rights of property are left solely dependent upon the will of a legislative body without any restraint. The fundamental maxims of a free government seem to require that the rights of personal liberty and private property should be held sacred.
Page 187 - And what a noble ally this to the cause of political freedom; with such an aid its march cannot fail to be on and on, till every son of earth shall drink in rich fruition the sorrow-quenching draughts of perfect liberty.