The State; Elements of Historical and Practical Politics

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D. C. Heath & Company, 1898 - Constitutional history - 656 pages
 

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Page 470 - the power to tax involves the power to destroy.' Recollecting the fundamental principle that the Constitution, laws and treaties of the United States are the supreme law of the land...
Page 630 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Page 397 - England, — the king's bench, the court of common pleas and the court of exchequer...
Page 658 - That the convention hereinafter provided for, when formed, shall ratify the boundaries aforesaid; otherwise they shall be and remain as now prescribed by the ordinance for the government of the territory northwest of the river Ohio...
Page 637 - This, then, is the sum of the whole matter: the end of government is the facilitation of the objects of society. The rule of governmental action is necessary cooperation ; the method of political development is conservative adaptation, shaping old habits into new ones, modifying old means to accomplish new ends.
Page 384 - Government as hereinafter provided the supervision of the laws relating to the public health, the relief of the poor, and local government.
Page 535 - As at present constituted, the Supreme Court consists of a chief justice and eight associate justices. It...
Page 611 - But enough has been said to show that the admitted functions of government embrace a much wider field than can easily be included within the ring-fence of any restrictive definition, and that it is hardly possible to find any ground of justification common to them all, except the comprehensive one of general expediency...

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