 For, the very idea that one man may be compelled to hold his life, or the means of living, or any material right essential to the enjoyment of life, at the mere will of another, seems to be intolerable in any country where freedom prevails, as being the...  The New York Supplement - Page 2861915Full view - About this book
 | 1910 - 560 pages
...the board, and on the other those from whom that consent is withheld at mere will and pleasure. For the very idea that one man may be compelled to hold his life, or the means of living, or any natural right essential to the enjoyment of life at the mere will of another, seems to be intolerable... | |
 | Ernst Freund - 1911 - 726 pages
...appliances as he may designate, and then to make a penal offense of the failure to install such appliances. "The very idea that one man may be compelled to hold...prevails, as being the essence of slavery itself." Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 US 356, 6 Sup. Ct. 1064, 30 L. Ed. 220. Under the law here in question it matters... | |
 | 1911 - 728 pages
...operation of laundries in wooden buildings, and declared: u Crowley n. Christensen, 137 US 86 (1890). "The very idea, that one man may be compelled to hold...intolerable in any country where freedom prevails, as being of the essence of slavery." The language of this opinion has been cited in many decisions which have... | |
 | American Prison Association. Congress - 1911 - 464 pages
...Bill of Bights, the government of the commonwealth, 'may be a government of laws and not of men. ' For the very idea that one man may be compelled to hold...material right essential to the enjoyment of life, at the mercy and will of another, seems to be intolerable in any county where freedom prevails, as being the... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - 1912 - 678 pages
...US 8; 28 Sup. Ct. Rep. 201; 52 L. ed. 369. granted to a public official which will compel any person "to hold his life, or the means of living, or any...the enjoyment of life at the mere will of another." The force of this holding, is, however, somewhat weakened by the fact that the court found that, whatever... | |
 | Texas Bar Association - 1913 - 330 pages
...Bill of Rights, the government of the Commonwealth 'may be a government of laws and not of men.' For the very idea that one man may be compelled to hold...prevails, as being the essence of slavery itself." What boots it to you or to me whether we hold our rights subject to the arbitrary power of one or many,... | |
 | Oscar Liebreich - 1913 - 648 pages
...the very condition assailed by the United States Supreme Court which says that it is ridiculous that the "very idea that one man may be compelled to hold his life or the means of living, or the material right essential to the employment of life at the mere will of another, seems to be intolerable... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce - 1913 - 1100 pages
...that it is time that that Constitution was still further amended/' And again the same tribunal says: "The very idea that one man may be compelled to hold his life or the means cf Kving, or any material right essential to the enjoyment of life, at the mere will of another, seems... | |
 | James Parker Hall - 1914 - 528 pages
...Bill of Rights, the government of the commonwealth "may be a government of laws and not of men." For, the very idea that one man may be compelled to hold...prevails, as being the essence of slavery itself. * * * This conclusion, and the reasoning on which it is based, are deductions from the face of the... | |
 | Harold Edgar Barnes - 1915 - 376 pages
...Bill of Rights, the government of the Commonwealth "may be a government of laws and not of men." For the very idea that one man may be compelled to hold...prevails, as being the essence of slavery itself. * * * * In the present cases we are not obliged to reason from the probable to the actual, and pass... | |
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