Pennsylvania Bar Association. Meeting. Report of the ... Annual Meeting ..., Volum 29

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The Association, 1923
 

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Pàgina 288 - It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair : the event is in the hand of God.
Pàgina 289 - ... the tendency of prosperity to breed tyrants, and so they established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, or none but...
Pàgina 307 - 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. SO HELP ME GOD.
Pàgina 307 - All courts shall be open, and every man for an injury done him in his lands, goods, person, or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law, and right and justice administered without sale, denial, or delay.
Pàgina 288 - Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ! They have left unstain'd what there they found — Freedom to worship God...
Pàgina 269 - 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. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created.
Pàgina 361 - But this has been generally the slow result of growth, and not the sudden innovation of theory ; in fact, they had a profound disbelief in theory, and knew better than to commit the folly of breaking with the past. They were not seduced by the French fallacy that a new system of government could be ordered like a new suit of clothes. They would as soon have thought of ordering a new suit of flesh and skin.
Pàgina 272 - Declaration, concerning: 1 . the interpretation of a treaty; 2. any question of international law; 3. the existence of any fact which, if established, would constitute a breach of an international obligation; 4.
Pàgina 298 - Shall we allow the counsels of doctrinaires and communists gradually to change the only successful system of self-government that has ever existed for a similar period? Shall we not rather summon all the forces of law and order, of intelligence and patriotism, of American character and devotion to country, and with a reawakened civic consciousness stand by the government our fathers bequeathed to us, preserve for ourselves and our posterity the heritage of freedom embodied in our Constitution, maintain...
Pàgina 518 - States and maintain representative government; to advance the science of jurisprudence : to promote the administration of justice...

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