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Popular Law Making A Study Of The Origin History And Present Te

shield--meaning the service of armed men. Just as, to-day, a man who does not pay his taxes can in some States work them out on the road, so conversely in England they very early commuted the necessity of a knight or land-owner furnishing so many armed men into a money payment...

Chapters

1. Chapter 1

shield--meaning the service of armed men. Just as, to-day, a man who does not pay his taxes can in some States work them out on the road, so conversely in England they very earl...

2. Chapter 2

word was used and the rise of the thing itself adverted to is, so far as I know, a contribution to the _Harvard Law Review_, entitled Trusts, vol. I, page 132; but the trust the...

3. Chapter 3

We have now gone over the history of modern legislation in the two great fields of property and personal liberty, and we have generally found that the same principles of jurispr...

4. Chapter 4

By the Act of May 29, 1908, two hours must be allowed by every corporation or individual employer to his employees to vote, and it is made a misdemeanor to in any way influence...

5. Chapter 5

We now come to a field of legislation related to the early English constitutional right to be protected from military law or molestation by the army, and the corresponding right...

6. Chapter 6

Most important of these are the right to assemble, and the right of free election. The right of political assembly and petition is another principle which has been much broadene...

7. Chapter 7

general principle that of home rule, by individual heads, by boards or commissions, system of taxation, Grand Army of the Republic given special privileges, "Granger" cases, law...

8. Chapter 8

sworn to in the coronation oath; taxation clause; history of the grants of by King John; of Henry III omits taxation clauses; confirmed more than thirty times by later kings; hi...