The Essentials of American Constitutional LawThorpe, Francis Newton
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The Essentials of American Constitutional Law
Thorpe, Francis Newton
Constitutional law -- United States
[450] Barbier _v._ Connolly, _supra_. Mugler _v._ Kansas, 123 U. S.,
623 (1887). The power to regulate, that is, the jurisdiction of the
police power of the State, as decided in Munn _v._ Illinois, 94 U. S.,
113 (1876), includes the power “to provide a maximum charge for the
storage and handling of grain” in a warehouse privately owned. This
is settled law, but careful reading should be made of the dissenting
opinions in this case: Budd _v._ New York, 143 U. S., 517 (1892),
sustaining Munn _v._ Illinois, with strong dissenting opinions; Spring
Valley Water Works _v._ Schottler, 110 U. S., 347 (1884) sustaining
Munn _v._ Illinois, with strong dissenting opinions. The economic
question here is whether the State can fix prices, wages, compensation,
hours of labor, etc. In this connection examine Lockner _v._ New York,
198 U. S., 45 (1905), sustaining a law of New York State making it
a penal offense for any employer to require and permit any employee
to work for him more than sixty hours in any one week. The law was
sustained as a constitutional exercise by the State of its police
power; but see dissenting opinions. The _per contra_ was “the right of
the individual to liberty of person and freedom of contract.”
[451] Capital Traction Company _v._ Hof, 174 U. S., 1 (1899). Many
cases cited and the history of trial by jury given.
[452] Mr. Justice Matthews in Yick Wo _v._ Hopkins, 118 U. S., 356
(1886).
[453] Amendment XIV., July 28, 1868. It will be noticed here that the
word “territory” is not used.
[454] Slaughter House Cases, 16 Wallace, 36 (1872).
[455] Amendment XIV.
[456] Art. iv., 2: 1.
[457] See p. 150.
[458] Canfield _v._ Coryell, 4 Washington, C. C., 371, 380; Paul _v._
Virginia, 8 Wallace, 180, and see pp. 191–211 of the present volume.
[459] Slaughter House Cases, _supra_.
[460] Crandall _v._ Nevada, 6 Wallace, 36 (1867).
[461] Slaughter House Cases, _supra_. (Some additional rights are
secured citizens of the United States by Amendment XIV., §2; and by
Amendments XIII. and XV.)
[462] Minor _v._ Happersett, 21 Wallace, 162 (1874).
[463] Art. iv., 4.
[464] Minor _v._ Happersett, _supra_. (But see _Ex parte_ Yarbrough,
110 U. S., 651.)
[465] These qualifications, in the aggregate, have been of age, sex,
residence, religion, property, race, and tax-paying. See the provisions
in the State constitutions in _Charters and Constitutions_, 7 vols.,
U. S. Government Printing Office, 1909; and a detailed account of
these early qualifications (1776–1850) in the author’s _Constitutional
History of the American People_, i., ch. iii.
[466] Art. i., 2: 1; Amendment XVII.
[467] _Ex parte_ Yarbrough, 110 U. S., 651, 653; Wiley _v._ Sinkler,
179 U. S., 58 (1900).
[468] United States _v._ Cruikshank, 92 U. S., 542 (1875).
[469] _Idem._
[470] Civil Rights Cases, 109 U. S., 3 (1883).
[471] _Idem._
[472] _Ex parte_, Siebold, 100 U. S., 371 (1879).
[473] Strauder _v._ West Virginia, 100 U. S., 303 (1879).
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