 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
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Law reports, digests, etc - 1954 - 948 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 his life, or the means of living, or 11 The Regents, with their many law-enforcement duties, are plainly not a judicial body in the ordinary... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Law reports, digests, etc - 1954 - 942 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 his life, or the means of living, or 11 The Regents, with their many law-enforcement duties, are plainly not a judicial body in the ordinary... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1955 - 672 pages
...room for the play and action of purely personal and arbitrary power. » * * For the very idea that one may be compelled to hold his life or the means of...prevails as being the essence of slavery Itself.' " EXHIBIT 1 38TH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE ALASKA NATIVE BROTHERHOOD AND SISTERHOOD AT CBAIO, ALASKA... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1956 - 1770 pages
...for the play and action of purely personal and arbitrary power. « » * For the very idea that one may be compelled to hold his life or the means of...prevails as being the essence of slavery itself.' * EXHIBIT 1 38rR ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE ALASKA NATIVE BROTHERHOOD AND SISTERHOOD AT CBAIO, ALASKA... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - Communists - 1958 - 242 pages
...the liberties of all of us. Many years ago, Justice Matthews of our Supreme Court admonished that, "The very idea that one man may be compelled to hold...the means of living, or any material right essential t» the enjoyment of life, at the mere will of another seems to be intolerable in any country where... | |
 | Texas. Court of Criminal Appeals - Criminal law - 1915 - 774 pages
...Bill of Right?, 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.' "I agree to this doctrine. A municipal ordinance which grants to certain municipal officers the unregulated,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1927 - 964 pages
...said in Yick v. Hopkins, 118 US 356 [30 L. Ed. 220, 6 Sup. Ct. Rep. 1064, see, also, Rose's US Notes], the very idea that one man may be compelled to hold...freedom prevails, as being the essence of slavery." It will be noted that the language last quoted of Mr. Justice Matthews of the United States supreme... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1972 - 1442 pages
...a government of laws and not of men.11 For the very idea that one mail may be compelled to hold bis life, or the means of living, or any material right...prevails, as being the essence of slavery itself. IV. The Bill Would Freeze Into Place a Segregated Status I,HIQ The justification for the transportation... | |
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