Lawyer and Banker and Southern Bench and Bar Review, Volume 12Charles Ellewyn George Lawyers and Bankers' Corporation, 1919 |
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Page 435
... constitutional theory of citizenship and the rights of sovereigns , reveal no such rule of legal action favoring the views of these eminent French savants . First it must be considered that citizenship is in no sense con- tractual in ...
... constitutional theory of citizenship and the rights of sovereigns , reveal no such rule of legal action favoring the views of these eminent French savants . First it must be considered that citizenship is in no sense con- tractual in ...
Page 440
... constitution of society , private law has necessarily a strong individualistic cast . The two systems which have exerted the most powerful influence on legal history , the law of Rome and the law of England , have also been the most ...
... constitution of society , private law has necessarily a strong individualistic cast . The two systems which have exerted the most powerful influence on legal history , the law of Rome and the law of England , have also been the most ...
Page 443
... Constitutional Law , quotes from the writings of these jurists exclusively . The English state of mind is easily understood . The great revo- lutions - religious and political - of the sixteenth and seventeenth cen- turies had assumed ...
... Constitutional Law , quotes from the writings of these jurists exclusively . The English state of mind is easily understood . The great revo- lutions - religious and political - of the sixteenth and seventeenth cen- turies had assumed ...
Page 444
... constitutional tradition had stated concrete rights . And while English legal thought acknowledged limitations on the royal pre- rogative , but regarded parliamentary omnipotence as axiomatic , the eighteenth - century controversies ...
... constitutional tradition had stated concrete rights . And while English legal thought acknowledged limitations on the royal pre- rogative , but regarded parliamentary omnipotence as axiomatic , the eighteenth - century controversies ...
Page 445
... constitution are not to be regarded as rules to fetter and control , but as matter merely declaratory and direc ... constitutional clause protesting against deprivation of life , liberty and property would be idle , if the legislature ...
... constitution are not to be regarded as rules to fetter and control , but as matter merely declaratory and direc ... constitutional clause protesting against deprivation of life , liberty and property would be idle , if the legislature ...
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Page 782 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people.
Page 762 - Behold, we go up to Jerusalem ; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes ; and they shall condemn him to death...
Page 762 - And He began to teach them, that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Page 762 - Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting. Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished.
Page 835 - And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight. Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.
Page 790 - It is, we think, a sound principle that, when a government becomes a partner in any trading company, it divests itself, so far as concerns the transactions of that company, of its sovereign character, and takes that of a private citizen.
Page 762 - For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on, and they shall scourge him, and put him to death ; and the third day he shall rise again.
Page 644 - Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
Page 783 - This amendment, which was seemingly adopted with prescience of just such contention as the present, disclosed the widespread fear that the national government might, under the pressure of a supposed general welfare, attempt to exercise powers which had not been granted. With equal determination the framers intended that no such assumption should ever find justification in the organic act. and that if in the future further powers seemed necessary they should be granted by the people in the manner...
Page 782 - But the proposition that there are legislative powers affecting the Nation as a whole which belong to, although not expressed in, the grant of powers, is in direct conflict with the doctrine that this is a Government of enumerated powers.