Magna Carta, and Other Addresses

The amendment was finally accepted in this form on March 4, 1794, and was at once submitted to the legislatures of the several states for ratification, but up to March, 1797, th...

We should then have government by the judiciary with a vengeance. Our constitutional system would be no longer reasonably fixed and stable, no longer regulated by the justice of...

Let every master be responsible for his own negligence, but let the line be drawn short of making every master--every employer of another--the insurer of the safety of his serva...

For many generations in England and in America it was believed that the writ of habeas corpus, justly esteemed the great bulwark of personal liberty, had its direct guaranty or...

The courts have repeatedly pointed out that the owners of property devoted to a public use are entitled to a fair and adequate judicial investigation if they contend that the ra...

In February of this year, Mr. Roosevelt delivered an address before the Ohio constitutional convention, in which he discussed the decision of the Supreme Court of the United Sta...

Response to the toast, "The Mayflower Compact," at the twenty-first annual banquet of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of New York, held at the Hotel St. Regis,...

This generation has had one bitter experience of Democratic tariff legislation. In 1892, the Democratic party was, for the first time in thirty-two years, placed in control of b...

The right of the states to levy progressive and unequal taxes on inheritances and testamentary dispositions is frequently sought to be upheld upon the theory that the power of o...

During the campaign of 1908, President Roosevelt fiercely denounced Mr. Bryan and Mr. Gompers for the plank above quoted but which he has now adopted. He then wrote a long lette...

When our form of government is compared with that of other countries, and we are told that in England or in France or elsewhere so-called progressive measures have been forced i...

The growth of constituencies, the multiplication of elective offices, and the neglect of their political duties by the majority of electors led to many abuses in the management...

Reform in the selection of judges, if their selection is to be by election, lies not in schemes to reform human nature by legislative nostrums and to destroy publicity and respo...

Many of us believe that the compact thus entered into was the prototype of the Constitution of the United States, that the government it established was the beginning of the rep...

As is well known to all lawyers, a restraining or injunction order is never granted by a state or federal court in New York without notice to the defendants except when proof is...

At the beginning of this campaign and until recently many Republicans were disheartened. The menace to our institutions and future in the possible success of the Progressive par...

I ask you again to rise and lift your glasses high to the joint toast of the other Allies: to his Majesty the King of the Belgians, whose valiant and heroic people have suffered...

It is also true that no cases are to be found in England where officers have been held responsible in damages for enforcing an act of parliament or have been restrained from car...

England, political thought in the 13th and 14th centuries, 6-9, 18-19; taxation, 9, 16-18; courts, 10, 17, 76, 77, 103-107; class legislation, 11; acts of Supremacy and Uniformi...

Workmen's Compensation laws, federal enactments, 61-64, 67-68; New York statute, 65-69; legislation not prevented by the courts or the Constitution, 68-69, 82; general discussio...