For, the very idea that one man may be compelled to hold his life, or the means of living, or any material right essential to the enjoyment of life, at the mere will of another, seems to be intolerable in any country where freedom prevails, as being the... The New York Supplement - Page 2861915Full view - About this book
| Eugene Wambaugh - Constitutional law - 1915 - 1106 pages
...Bill of Rights, the government of the commonwealth " may be a government of laws and not of men." For, the very idea that one man may be compelled to hold...prevails, as being the essence of slavery itself. . . . In the present cases we are not obliged to reason from the probable to the actual, and pass upon... | |
| Americanization - 1915 - 624 pages
...Court in Yick Wo vs. Hopkins, just authoritatively reaffirmed in the Arizona Alien Act decision, that "The very idea that one man may be compelled to hold...prevails, as being the essence of slavery itself." Americanization Work of Women's Clubs THE National Americanization Committee is enlisting the active... | |
| George A. Malcolm - Law - 1916 - 824 pages
...Bill of Rights, the government of the commonwealth 'may be a government of laws and not of men.' For, the very idea that one man may be compelled to hold...prevails, as being the essence of slavery itself." *0 Mr. Justice Miller said in another case: "No man in this country is so high that he is above the... | |
| Law - 1916 - 1380 pages
...do not mean to leave room for the play and action of purely personal and arbitrary power. . . . For the very idea that one man may be compelled to hold...intolerable in any country where freedom prevails, aa being the essence of slavery." In times of peace and prosperity, when the struggles of the past... | |
| Francis Newton Thorpe - Law - 1917 - 312 pages
...Bill of Rights, the government of the Commonwealth "may be a government of laws and not of men." For the very idea that one man may be compelled to hold...prevails, as being the essence of slavery itself. ' 'Mr. Justice Matthews in Yick Wo p. Hopkins, 118 US, 356 (1886). CHAPTER XII THE LAW OF CITIZENSHIP... | |
| Ernest Guy Stevens - Competition - 1917 - 272 pages
...263). "As said in Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 US 356, and quoted in Powell v. Pennsylvania, 127 US 678: " 'The very idea that one man may be compelled to hold...freedom prevails, as being the essence of slavery itself " (p. 264). The next case arose in South Dakota where in upholding its state statute (Laws 1907, ch.... | |
| William Seal Carpenter - Courts - 1918 - 264 pages
...one man may be compelled i" Haines : The American Doctrine of Judicial Supremacy, p. 309. to hold Ms life, or the means of living, or any material right...prevails, as being the essence of slavery itself. Judicial legislation was not unknown before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment. More than a century... | |
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