American Government and PoliticsMacmillan, 1910 - 772 pages |
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... corporations during that period , each of which received its charter from the colonial governor - New York and Albany in 1686 , Philadelphia in 1691 , and Trenton , New Jersey , the last , in 1746. The form of organization in general ...
... corporations during that period , each of which received its charter from the colonial governor - New York and Albany in 1686 , Philadelphia in 1691 , and Trenton , New Jersey , the last , in 1746. The form of organization in general ...
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... corporate entities rather than upon the people thereof . The convention accordingly decided upon a bicameral legislature : a Senate affording equal representation to all states and a House composed of representatives apportioned among ...
... corporate entities rather than upon the people thereof . The convention accordingly decided upon a bicameral legislature : a Senate affording equal representation to all states and a House composed of representatives apportioned among ...
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... corporations led our constitution - makers to provide long and detailed lists of matters on which the legis- latures are absolutely forbidden to act . To secure publicity and prevent sinister influences from working by secret methods ...
... corporations led our constitution - makers to provide long and detailed lists of matters on which the legis- latures are absolutely forbidden to act . To secure publicity and prevent sinister influences from working by secret methods ...
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... corporation is abrogated in Oklahoma ; and every person accused of violating or disobeying an injunction out of the presence or hearing of the court is entitled to trial by jury the right of a hearing being guaranteed in all cases ...
... corporation is abrogated in Oklahoma ; and every person accused of violating or disobeying an injunction out of the presence or hearing of the court is entitled to trial by jury the right of a hearing being guaranteed in all cases ...
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... corporations ; they contain sections in behalf of labor ; they provide in more or less detail for popular education ; they take into account the special legal problems created by the rise of the great cities . Several of them make ...
... corporations ; they contain sections in behalf of labor ; they provide in more or less detail for popular education ; they take into account the special legal problems created by the rise of the great cities . Several of them make ...
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Page 700 - A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes actuated by different sentiments and views.
Page 321 - 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.
Page 159 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Page 295 - ... the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 313 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world...
Page 704 - ... multiplied by the number of his shares of stock shall equal, or to distribute them on the same principle among as many candidates as he shall think fit; and such directors or managers shall not be elected in any other manner.
Page 47 - The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity, of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
Page 62 - They would contain various exceptions to powers not granted; and, on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?
Page 724 - The Legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free common schools, wherein all the children of this State may be educated.
Page 276 - The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.