MAGNA CARTA AND OTHER ADDRESSES COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS SALES AGENTS NEW YORK LEMCKE & BUECHNER 30-32 West 27th Street LONDON HUMPHREY MILFORD Amen Corner, E.C. MAGNA CARTA AND OTHER ADDRESSES BY WILLIAM D. GUTHRIE [Illustration: 1754 Columbia University Press 1893] New York COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS 1916 _All rights reserved_ Copyright, 1916, By COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS. Set up and electrotyped. Published August, 1916. CONTENTS PAGE I. MAGNA CARTA 1 Address before the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York at its celebration of the seven-hundredth anniversary of Magna Carta, Albany, June 15, 1915. II. THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT 27 Response to the toast, "The Mayflower Compact," at the twenty-first annual banquet of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of New York, held at the Hotel St. Regis, New York, November 23, 1915. III. CONSTITUTIONAL MORALITY 42 Address before the Pennsylvania State Bar Association at its eighteenth annual meeting, held at Cape May, New Jersey, June 25, 1912. IV. THE ELEVENTH AMENDMENT 87 Address before the New York State Bar Association at its thirty-first annual meeting, held in New York, January 25, 1908. V. CRITICISM OF THE COURTS 130 Read as a supplement to the report of a committee of the New York State Bar Association submitted at the thirty-sixth annual meeting of the Association, held at Utica, January 24, 1913. VI. GRADUATED OR PROGRESSIVE TAXATION 159 Address before the National Civic Federation at its annual meeting, held in New York, December 13, 1906. VII. THE DUTY OF CITIZENSHIP 178 Address as temporary chairman of the New York Republican State Convention, Saratoga Springs, September 25, 1912. VIII. NOMINATING CONVENTIONS 219 Remarks before the Committee on Suffrage of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York, Albany, June 16, 1915. IX. CATHOLIC PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS 247 Remarks at the dedication of the Roman Catholic parochial school at Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, September 6, 1915. X. THE FRANCE-AMERICA COMMITTEE OF NEW YORK 261 Remarks as presiding officer at a luncheon given in honor of the members of the Anglo-French Credit and Finance Commission at the Hotel Knickerbocker, New York, October 1, 1915. INDEX 271 MAGNA CARTA[1]