Popular Law-making: A study of the origin, history, and present tendencies of law-making by statuteStimson, Frederic Jesup
History
Popular Law-making: A study of the origin, history, and present tendencies of law-making by statute
Stimson, Frederic Jesup
Legislation -- United States
A Woman Is a Citizen; Her Right to Labor and Property; Marriage,
Divorce, and Children; Women in Politics and Education; Reform of
Divorce Procedure; Uniformity of Law in Divorce; The Secular Law
in Sexual Matters; Marriage a Contract; The "Single Standard"
and Free Divorce; Control of Marriage by the State; Recent
Legislation; Radical Statutes in Sexual Matters; Legal Separation;
The Married Woman's Privileges; The "Age of Consent"; Female
Suffrage by Property-Owners; Kidnapping, Curfew, Rape; Statistics
of Divorce; Industrial Liberty of Women; Female Labor in England
and U.S.A.
XVIII. CRIMINAL LAW AND POLICE
Common Law Prevails; New Crimes and Penalties; Self-Regardant
Actions; Reform in Punishment; Procedure in the Courts; Lynching
and Mob Law; Interstate Commerce in Liquor, etc.; Physicians'
Privilege; Prohibition Laws; City Ordinances; Juvenile Courts and
Laws; Present Needs.
XIX. OF THE GOVERNMENTAL FUNCTION, INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS, AND THE
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Government by Commission; Taxes, Debt, and Franchises; Municipal
Socialism; Internal Improvements; State Farms and Forests;
Education; Taxation and State Aid; Present Questions.
XX. FINAL
The Form of Our Statutes; Need of Authorized Revisions; Reforms
Recommended; Indexing and Arrangement; Need of a Parliamentary
Draughtsman; Recommendations of the State Librarians; Purpose of
this Book.
INDEX
POPULAR LAW-MAKING
I
THE ENGLISH IDEA OF LAW
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