Legislation Affecting Children in the District of Columbia: Letter from the Attorney General Transmitting Supplement to Annual Report of the Attorney General for the Year 1914, Embodying First Report of Committee Appointed by the Attorney General to Study Need for Legislation Affecting Children in the District of Columbia, Including Drafts of New Juvenile Court Laws ... |
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Legislation Affecting Children in the District of Columbia: Letters from the ... Bernard Flexner No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 21 - To save a child from becoming a criminal, or from continuing in a career of crime, to end in maturer years in public punishment and disgrace, the legislature surely may provide for the salvation of such a child, if its parents or guardian be unable or unwilling to do so, by bringing it into one of the courts of the state without any process at all, for the purpose of subjecting it to the state's guardianship and protection.
Page 67 - ... the court is authorized to seek the co-operation of all societies or organizations, public or private, having for their object the protection or aid of...
Page 45 - ... of such of its citizens as by reason of infancy, defective understanding, or other misfortune or infirmity, are unable to take care of themselves. The performance of this duty is justly regarded as one of the most important of governmental functions, and all constitutional limitations must be so understood and construed as not to interfere with its proper and legitimate exercise.
Page 47 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That an Act entitled " An Act to create a juvenile court in and for the District of Columbia," approved March nineteen, nineteen hundred and six, is hereby amended so as to read as follows : SEC.
Page 26 - The judicial power of the State shall be vested in a court for the trial of impeachments, a supreme court, district courts, probate courts, courts of justices of the peace, and such other courts inferior to the supreme court as may be established by law for any incorporated city or town.
Page 29 - The powers of the government of the State of California shall be divided into three separate departments— the legislative, executive, and judicial; and no person charged with the exercise of powers properly belonging to one of these departments shall exercise any functions appertaining to either of the others, except as in this Constitution expressly directed or permitted.
Page 21 - ... a means of placing its hands upon the child to lead it into one of its courts. When the child gets there and the court, with the power to save it, determines on its salvation, and not its punishment, it is immaterial how it got there. The act simply provides how children who ought to be saved may reach the court to be saved. If experience should show that there ought to be other ways for it to get there, the legislature can, and undoubtedly will, adopt them, and they will never be regarded as...
Page 21 - ... nor is the state, when compelled, as parens patriae, to take the place of the father for the same purpose, required to adopt any process as a means of placing its hands upon the child to lead it into one of its courts.
Page 67 - And it is hereby made the duty of every county, town or municipal official or department, in said county, to render such assistance and co-operation within his or its jurisdictional power to further the objects of this act; and...
Page 58 - The court may in its discretion in any case of a delinquent child permit such child to be proceeded against in accordance with the laws that may be in force in this state governing the commission of crimes or violations of city, village, or town ordinance, in such case the petition filed under this act shall be dismissed.