Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association, Volume 42E.C. Markley & Son, 1917 - Bar associations |
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... question whether this continent should be Latin or Anglo - Saxon . A little beyond is Ticonderoga , summoned to surrender by Ethan Allen in the double authority of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress . Off to the east is the ...
... question whether this continent should be Latin or Anglo - Saxon . A little beyond is Ticonderoga , summoned to surrender by Ethan Allen in the double authority of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress . Off to the east is the ...
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... question whether democracy is to grandly meet the strain put upon it - all these refuse to be put aside or denied ... questions that will spring up must largely be treated by lawyers , and that much of the future course of the country ...
... question whether democracy is to grandly meet the strain put upon it - all these refuse to be put aside or denied ... questions that will spring up must largely be treated by lawyers , and that much of the future course of the country ...
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... question on the proposition that members of the Bar proposing to become members of the Asso- ciation shall be eligible after three years ' practice instead of five years . Stephen H. Allen , of Kansas : I second that suggestion . The ...
... question on the proposition that members of the Bar proposing to become members of the Asso- ciation shall be eligible after three years ' practice instead of five years . Stephen H. Allen , of Kansas : I second that suggestion . The ...
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... question of the advisability of fixing the date for the inauguration of the President of the United States at an earlier period than March 4 following his election . That question was brought up because many of us were impressed with ...
... question of the advisability of fixing the date for the inauguration of the President of the United States at an earlier period than March 4 following his election . That question was brought up because many of us were impressed with ...
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... question whether the time between the election and the inaugu- ration of the President should be shortened . Let that committee investigate the question , let that committee determine all the questions that are important in connection ...
... question whether the time between the election and the inaugu- ration of the President should be shortened . Let that committee investigate the question , let that committee determine all the questions that are important in connection ...
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Page 643 - The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.
Page 16 - I will abstain from all offensive personality, and advance no fact prejudicial to the honor or reputation of a party or witness, unless required by the justice of the cause with which 1 am charged; I will never reject, from any consideration personal to myself, the cause of the defenseless or oppressed, or delay any man's cause for lucre or malice.
Page 10 - In determining the amount of the fee, it is proper to consider : ( 1 ) the time and labor required, the novelty and difficulty of the questions involved...
Page 362 - Territory to which such person has fled to cause him to be arrested and secured, and to cause notice of the arrest to be given to the executive authority making such demand, or to the agent of such authority appointed to receive the fugitive, and to cause the fugitive to be delivered to such agent when he shall appear.
Page 13 - This cannot be forced, but must be the outcome of character and conduct. The publication or circulation of ordinary simple business cards, being a matter of personal taste or local custom, and sometimes of convenience, is not per se improper. But solicitation of business by circulars or advertisements, or by personal communications or interviews, not warranted by personal relations, is unprofessional.
Page 640 - If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each. So if a law be in opposition to the constitution, if both the law and the constitution apply to a particular case so that the court must either decide that case conformably to the law disregarding the constitution or conformably to the constitution disregarding the law, the court must determine which of these conflicting rules governs the case. This is of the very essence of judicial duty.
Page 643 - No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government. Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism, but the theory of necessity on which it is based is false; for the government, within the Constitution, has all the powers granted to it which are necessary to preserve its existence; as has been happily proved by the result of the great effort to throw off its...
Page 203 - Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
Page 299 - The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. Sam Houston Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy It is the only dictator that freemen acknowledge and the only security that freemen desire.
Page 7 - Whenever there is proper ground for serious complaint of a judicial officer, it is the right and duty of the lawyer to submit his grievances to the proper authorities. In such cases, but not otherwise, such charges should be encouraged and the person making them should be protected.