The Sphere of the State: Or, The People as a Body-politic. With Special Consideration of Certain Present Problems

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G. P. Putnam's sons, 1894 - 275 Seiten
 

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Seite 26 - to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme Court the moment they are made, as in ordinary cases between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own masters, having to that extent resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal. '
Seite 220 - By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law, that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband ; under
Seite 14 - being by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate and subjected to the political power of another without his own consent. The only way whereby anyone divests himself of his natural liberty, and puts on the bonds of civil society, is by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community.
Seite 263 - ' the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Seite 252 - the general, if not the universal, sentiment in America was that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from the state, so far as was not incompatible with the private right of conscience and the freedom of religious worship.
Seite 253 - of conscience and the freedom of religious worship. An attempt to level all religions, and to make it a matter of state policy to hold all in utter indifference, would have created universal disapprobation, if not universal indignation.
Seite 117 - and with the other bestow it upon favored individuals, to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less robbery because it is done under the forms of the law and is called taxation.
Seite 198 - Without the slightest exaggeration we may assert that, with very few exceptions, the city governments of the United States are the worst in Christendom—the most expensive, the most inefficient, and the most corrupt. No one who has any considerable knowledge of our
Seite 180 - There is no man so indigent or wretched, but he may demand a supply sufficient for all the necessities of life from the more opulent part of the community by means of the several statutes enacted for the relief of the poor.
Seite 118 - The power of taxation, however vast in its character and searching in its extent, is necessarily limited to subjects within the jurisdiction of the State. Property lying beyond the jurisdiction of the State is not a subject upon which her taxing power can be legitimately exercised. Indeed, it would seem that no adjudication should be necessary to establish so obvious a proposition.

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