The American Constitution as it protects private rights / by Frederic Jessup Stimson.

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Publication details:
Delanco, NJ : Gryphon Editons, 2005.
Record id:
58605
Series:
The Legal Classics Library.
Subject:
Constitutional law -- United States.
Human rights -- United States.
Contents:
i. The human side of the constitution and its present need
II. Constitutional rights peculiar to English and American freemen
III. The right to law as bearing on present problems: race, sex and labor questions
IV. Of military law, administrative law, war powers, aliens, and enemies
V. The right to liberty
VI. The right to property
VII. Constitutional protection against combinations
VIII. Freedom of speech, the press, religion and the home
IX. The division of powers between the federal government, the states, and rights reserved to the people
X. The extension of federal power under the interstate commerce and taxation clauses and the Fourteenth Amendment
CXI. Of constitutional amendments in the future.
Note:
"This special edition ... has been privately printed for the members of the Legal Classics Library".
Includes booklet "The American constitution as it protects private rights, Frederic Jesup Stimson: notes from the editors", by Thomas G Barnes. Held at Library counter.
"The first suggestion for this book was a series of eight lectures delivered before the Lowell Institute at Boston, in 1907 ... ."--P. 3.
"Clauses in the U.S. Constitution protecting private rights": p. ix-xiv.
Reproduction of original from Yale Law School Library.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reprint. Originally published: New York :Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923.
Variant title:
Making of modern law online collection.
Phys. description:
xiv, 239 p. ; 22 cm