 Included in the right of personal liberty and the right of private property — partaking of the nature of each — is the right to make contracts for the acquisition of property. Chief among such contracts is that of personal employment, by which labor...  Massachusetts Reports - Page 155by Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1917Full view - About this book
 | Harold Edgar Barnes, B. A. Milner - Constitutional law - 1924 - 440 pages
...said: In Coppage v. United States, 236 US 14, this court speaking through "Mr. Justice Pitney, said: "Included in the right of personal liberty and the right of private property—partaking of the nature of each—is the right to make contracts for the acquisition of... | |
 | Lawrence Boyd Evans - Constitutional law - 1925 - 1436 pages
...complain of the unconstitutionality of our police regulations." That freedom in the making of contracts of personal employment, by which labor and other services...are exchanged for money or other forms of property, is an elementary part of the rights of personal liberty and private property, not to be struck down... | |
 | National Consumers' League - Minimum wage - 1925 - 332 pages
...Louisiana, 165 US 578, 591 (1896) ; Adair v. United States, supra; Coppage v. Kansas, 236 US I, 14 (1915) : "Included in the right of personal liberty and the right of private property—partaking of the nature of each— is the right to make contracts for the acquisition of... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1926 - 1502 pages
...endeavor to restate some of the grounds upon which it rests. The principle is fundamental and vital. Included in the right of personal liberty and the...contracts is that of personal employment, by which la bor and other services are exchanged for money or other forms of property. If this right be struck... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1926 - 1180 pages
...99. 88 219 US 549 (1911). In 1915, in Coppage v. Kansas, M the Court said, through Judge Pitney : " Included in the right of personal liberty and the...to make contracts for the acquisition of property. ... If this right be struck down or arbitrarily interfered with, there is a substantial impairment... | |
 | George Arthur Malcolm - Constitutional law - 1926 - 812 pages
...Included within the right to contract, there exists the right to contract for personal services or employment, by which labor and other services are exchanged for money or other forms of property. 18 "Liberty" as understood in democracy is not license; it is "liberty regulated by law." Implied in... | |
 | Economics - 1928 - 656 pages
...nor Congress can prohibit employers from insisting that their employees sign such contracts, for : " Included in the right of personal liberty and the...nature of each — is the right to make contracts for Lhe acquisition of property. Chief among these contracts is that of personal employment, by which labor... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Industrial relations - 1928 - 970 pages
...for the purposes of their trade? Mr. MKRiiirr. I will also read from Coppage v. Kansas, 23C US 1 : Included in the right of personal liberty and the...property, partaking of the nature of each, is the right to enter into contracts for the acquisition of property. Chief among such rights is that of personal employment,... | |
 | United States U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce - 1929 - 366 pages
...Co. v. Cheek (259 US 530, p. 536) the Supreme Court said : " That freedom in the making of contracts of personal employment, by which labor and other services...are exchanged for money or other forms of property, is an elementary part of the rights of personal liberty and private property, not to be struck clown... | |
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