Political Science Quarterly, Volume 21

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Academy of Political Science., 1906
Vols. 4-38, 40-41 include Record of political events, Oct. 1, 1888-Dec. 31, 1925 (issued as a separately paged supplement to no. 3 of v. 31-38 and to no. 1 of v. 40).

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Page 146 - If either party shall hereafter grant to any other nation any particular favor in navigation or commerce, it shall immediately become common to the other party, freely, where it is freely granted to such other nation, or on yielding the same compensation, when the grant is conditional.
Page 426 - Statutes of the nature of that under review, limiting the hours in which grown and intelligent men may labor to earn their living, are mere meddlesome interferences with the rights of the individual...
Page 416 - Eight hours shall constitute a legal day's work for all classes of employees in this State, except those engaged in farm and domestic service, unless otherwise provided by law.
Page 60 - Joyce (with several remainders), to be held as of the manor of East Greenwich, " in -free and common socage, by fealty only, and not in chief or by knight's service.
Page 20 - The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression.
Page 429 - ... the Legislature may regulate and fix the wages or salaries, the hours of work or labor, and make provision for the protection, welfare and ARTICLE XII — Continued. safety of persons employed by the State or by any county, city, town, village or other civil division of the State, or by any contractor or subcontractor performing work, labor or services for the State, or for any county, city , town, village or other civil division thereof.
Page 426 - If this be not clearly the case the individuals, whose rights are thus made the subject of legislative interference, are under the protection of the Federal Constitution regarding their liberty of contract as well as of person ; and the legislature of the State has no power to limit their right as proposed in this statute...
Page 424 - We recommend, namely : that a library board be authorized to consist of seven members, five to be appointed by the Governor for a term of five years...
Page 20 - Every generation is and must be competent to all the purposes which its occasions require. It is the living and not the dead that are to be accommodated.
Page 19 - Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave, is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.

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