Magna Carta, and Other AddressesGuthrie, William D. (William Dameron)
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Magna Carta, and Other Addresses
Guthrie, William D. (William Dameron)
Constitutional law -- United States
Master and servant, three common-law rules changed by
Congress, 62-63, 68;
the common law to be changed by the legislature, not by the courts,
68-69, 134-135, 137-138, 155;
soundness of the common-law rules, 132-134.
_See_ Workmen's Compensation.
Mayflower, 27, 29, 30, 32, 37.
Mayflower Compact, main treatment, 27-41;
its interest to Americans, 29, 30, 31, 40;
called the first written constitution, 30;
text as preserved by Governor Bradford, 30n-31n;
its covenant for just and equal laws, 31, 35-37;
initiated republican government, 31, 40.
Minorities, English courts may yet have to protect, 11;
their protection entrusted by the founders to the
courts, 25, 43, 75, 76, 78;
secure under representative government, 40;
threatened by the short ballot, 223.
_See_ Judiciary.
Monroe, James, 186, 189, 197.
Morality, a condition of social welfare and individual
happiness, 250, 252;
taught in Catholic schools, 250, 255.
_See_ Constitutional Morality.
Natural rights, a cardinal principle of Magna Carta, 6.
New York city, tobacco workers in tenements, 49-57;
board of health, 50;
death-rate, 51;
tenement-house conditions, 55-57;
courts, 141, 142;
parochial schools, 254, 257.
New York state, constitution, 12, 19, 23, 24, 49, 258;
Court of Appeals, 50, 57, 65, 80, 138, 139, 141, 145, 146,
154-156, 212;
Bar Association, 75, 131, 140;
conflicts with the federal courts, 87;
practice as to injunctions, 148, 151-152;
population, 204, 234;
religious denominations, 256.
North Carolina _vs._ Temple, 95.
Officers, Public, responsibility of, 14, 103-106, 111, 114, 226;
fair criticism desirable, 47;
greater permanency of tenure advocated, 143;
their selection important, 221;
in New York, 222-224.
Osborn _vs._ U.S. Bank, 112-114.
Parliament, and Magna Carta, 3;
its power formerly limited, 7, 8, 10;
its supremacy, 9-11, 17-18, 76-77, 107;
formerly believed to exist to uphold Magna Carta, 10, 25;
its consent to taxation necessary, 16;
parliament of 1265 developed from the _commune consilium_, 16;
prototype in parliament of Simon de Montfort, 18;
labor laws, 79;
statute on the Petition of Right, 101.
Parties, Political, essential to free government, 206, 238-242;
should follow the representative principle, 207;
effect of initiative and referendum upon, 207;
corruption not cured by primaries, 236, 238;
party government, 238-242.
People _vs._ Koerner, 145.
People _vs._ Lochner, 57-58, 153.
People _vs._ Lustig, 145.
People _vs._ Turley, 143.
Perkins, James Breck, 263, 264.
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