The American Journal of Sociology, Volume 22Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess University of Chicago Press, 1917 - Social sciences Established in 1895 as the first U.S. scholarly journal in its field, AJS remains a leading voice for analysis and research in the social sciences, presenting work on the theory, methods, practice, and history of sociology. AJS also seeks the application of perspectives from other social sciences and publishes papers by psychologists, anthropologists, statisticians, economists, educators, historians, and political scientists. |
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... a maximum of charge to be made for services rendered , accommodations furnished , and articles sold . To this day statutes are to be found in many of the states upon some or all of these subjects , and we think that it has never yet ...
... a maximum of charge to be made for services rendered , accommodations furnished , and articles sold . To this day statutes are to be found in many of the states upon some or all of these subjects , and we think that it has never yet ...
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Page 831 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence, and affect the community at large.
Page 830 - The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals: it is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.
Page 260 - The god who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Page 10 - In large bodies the circulation of power must be less vigorous at the extremities. Nature has said it. The Turk cannot govern Egypt, and Arabia, and...
Page 830 - Are nothing more or less than the powers of government inherent in every sovereignty, * * * that is to say, * * * the power to govern men and things." Under these powers the government regulates the conduct of its citizens one towards another, and the manner in which each shall use his own property, when such regulation becomes necessary for the public good.
Page 10 - Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance in weakening government. Seas roll, and months pass, between the order and the execution; and the want of a speedy explanation of a single point is enough to defeat a whole system.
Page 831 - In their exercise it has been customary in England from time immemorial, and in this country from its first colonization, to regulate ferries, common carriers, hackmen, bakers, millers, wharfingers, innkeepers, etc., and in so doing to fix a maximum of charge to be made for services rendered, accommodations furnished, and articles sold.
Page 469 - he lies floating many a rood," he is still a creature. His ribs, his fins, his whalebone, his blubber, the very spiracles through which he spouts a torrent of brine against his origin, and covers me all over with the spray, —everything of him and about him is from the throne.
Page 222 - A plentiful subsistence increases the bodily strength of the labourer, and the comfortable hope of bettering his condition, and of ending his days perhaps in ease and plenty, animates him to exert that strength to the utmost.
Page 222 - No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.