The Origin and Growth of the American Constitution: An Historical Treatise in which the Documentary Evidence as to the Making of the Entirely New Plan of Federal Government Embodied in the Existing Constitution of the United States Is, for the First Time, Set Forth as a Complete and Consistent Whole

Hannis Taylor

Houghton Mifflin, 1911 - 676 Seiten

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Case of American Tobacco Co 1908 Act termed revolutionary	xxviii

Reserved powers of the states Marshall on implied powers	xxix

CHAPTER I	1

Address prepared by Hamilton Federal Convention first proposed by Webster	7

Curtiss misty platitude Bancroft 1882 reference to paper of February 16 1783	8

Madisons testimony imperfect records of votes and debates	14

Consolidated Kingdom of England offspring compared with parent	20

Convention organized May 13 New Hampshire ratified June	21

Ordinance of 1787 title to Northwest Territory	255

Restricted right of suffrage right of a state to regulate it death of the old Congress	267

174	276

Maine admitted in 1820 the Missouri Compromise 1820 Jeffersons forebodings	279

Hamilton and Jefferson as leaders era of good feeling 1820	283

Abraham Lincoln LincolnDouglas debates of 1858 Minnesota admitted in 1858	289

CHAPTER X	296

Sixtyone years without a constitutional amendment opposition to new national	302

Our second Federal Constitution the wholly novel theory	28

Randolphs statement only Pinckney and Hamilton drafted finished plans	33

Pinckneys plan not in the record why it was not copied	34

14	35

Virginia June 25 opposition weakened by act of South Carolina Patrick Henry	36

No draftsman claimed to be inventor	42

Webster first to defend the new Constitution refers expressly to his original paper	48

15	53

Boston the hundred and the hundred court the state assembly	56

6	59

Ancient state becomes modern shire state assembly survives as shiremoot germs	60

Fall of Harold and triumph of William William a national king as well as feudal	66

18	69

Beginning of Kings Bench grand and trial juries Assize of Arms 1181	72

Siete Partidas oppression of colonists England as a colonizer great titledeed	91

English law the basis London Companys separate charter of 1609 domains of	92

Rise of the three estates John as a statesman	103

Invalidity of colonial statutes state constitutions of 1776 earliest cases declaring	104

19	106

Aristotles Constitutions the Greece of Polybios Achaian League	110

United Provinces of the Netherlands StatesGeneral and its powers criticism	116

Albany meeting of 1754 Madisons statement of its purpose Franklins statement	122

20	128

Mr Blands summingup January 27 1783 one hundred and forty years of sterility	140

Prejudice in favor of exclusive state taxation deeprooted Websters defense of	145

64	147

How the delegates were to be chosen old oneterm rule denounced Congress to	151

From what common source were the plans derived? Pelatiah Websters paper	159

CHAPTER VII	164

Absurdity of inspiration theory the four new principles relation between architect	172

Provincial spirit in Virginia the great invention not gradually evolved in Conven	178

Racetraits of the soldierstatesman special aptitude for economics and finance	192

John Rutledge chairman a great orator	200

The last day September 17 Franklins appeal Washington addresses Convention	206

Rhode Island May 29 1790 summary	219

of North Briton Mansfields judgment	234

66	236

Hamilton in The Federalist right to have cause submitted	240

Suit by a foreign sovereign electoral system amended	248

Jefferson the real author of both sets Rousseau and the Contrat Social	308

Chases doctrine Jeffersons evasion of moral responsibility	312

Lincolns declaration 1858 Sewards irrepressible conflict collision of unlawful	330

Unity of the three amendments Thirteenth Amendment slavery in territories abol	345

What privileges the nation must protect what privileges states must protect certain	352

Power of exclusion 39th chapter of Magna Carta 1215	358

A government of law as distinguished from one of functionaries Murray v Hoboken	364

Right to vote drawn from state electors of House of Representatives	372

Its terms as to citizenship effect of conquest Calvins case colonists denied repre	381

CHAPTER XIII	402

Field of corporate action narrowed organized labor the age of collectivism	408

Triumphs of physical science unlimited competition too strong for the weak demo	410

Ogden 1824 monopoly backed by state power yields to federal power	416

Judicial review of rates fixed by legislature or commission right of Commission	422

Jeffersons deadly heresy his failure to appreciate the judicial power	424

Its principles modified in England American courts fall back on earlier English	435

Subsequent acquisitions existing conditions	456

Transition from individualism to collectivism dread of state power nurtured	462

67	469

Four great agencies at work American Bar Association and its yokefellow results	470

Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England 1643	477

Coxe and Franklins plan 1754	484

Declaration of Rights and Liberties made by Stamp Act Congress 1765	495

498	515

The epochmaking document of February 16 1783 in which is embodied	527

The Charles Pinckney Plan	568

The New Jersey Plan	580

68	622

69	641

404	647

37	657

85	659

438	665

281	666

36	667

Modern English system embodied in state constitutions Justice Matthewss correct	673

29	674

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Titel	The Origin and Growth of the American Constitution: An Historical Treatise in which the Documentary Evidence as to the Making of the Entirely New Plan of Federal Government Embodied in the Existing Constitution of the United States Is, for the First Time, Set Forth as a Complete and Consistent Whole
Autor/in	Hannis Taylor
Verlag	Houghton Mifflin, 1911
Original von	University of California
Digitalisiert	26. Okt. 2007
Länge	676 Seiten

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