Illinois Law Review, Volume 19

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Northwestern University Law Pub. Association, 1925
Vols. 6-13 include issues of the Bulletin of the Legal Aid Society of Chicago.

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Page 128 - The country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." (First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861.)
Page 35 - That the Commission shall also have power (a) To gather and compile information concerning, and to investigate from time to time the organization, business, conduct, practices, and management of any corporation engaged in commerce, excepting banks and common carriers subject to the act to regulate commerce, and its relation to other corporations and to individuals, associations and partnerships.
Page 439 - Sec. 24. That nothing herein contained shall be construed to relate to contempts committed in the presence of the court, or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice, nor to contempts committed in disobedience of any lawful . . . order . . . entered in any suit or action brought or prosecuted in the name of, or on behalf of, the United States.
Page 110 - International law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction, as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination" (The Paquete Habana (1900) 175 US 677;
Page 11 - The powers of the government of this state are divided into three distinct departments—legislative, executive and judicial; and no person or collection of persons being one of these departments shall exercise any power properly belonging to either of the others, except as hereinafter expressly directed or permitted
Page 28 - purposes of examination, and the right to copy any documentary evidence of any corporation being investigated or proceeded against; and the commission shall have power to require by subpoena the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of all such documentary evidence relating to any matter under investigation
Page 401 - the natural outcome of a dominant opinion, unless it can be said that a rational and fair man necessarily would admit that the statute proposed would infringe fundamental principles as they have been understood by the traditions of our people and our law.
Page 138 - Criminal anarchy is the doctrine that organized government should be overthrown by force or violence, or by assassination of the executive head or of any of the executive officials of government, or by any unlawful means. The advocacy of such doctrine either by word of mouth or writing is a felony.
Page 653 - No person shall on or after the date when this Act goes into effect, manufacture, sell, barter, transport, deliver, furnish or possess any intoxicating liquor, except as authorized in this Act, and all the provisions of this Act shall be liberally construed to the end that the use of intoxicating liquor as a beverage may be prevented.
Page 210 - An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes,

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