 | United States. Congress. Senate. District of Columbia - 1925 - 696 pages
...' institutions rest,' 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...in any country where freedom prevails as being the very essence of slavery itself ; yet ' in many cases of mere administration the responsibility is purely... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia - Housing - 1925 - 686 pages
...' institutions rest,' 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...in any country where freedom prevails as being the very essence of slavery itself; yet 'in many cases of mere administration the responsibility is purely... | |
 | District of Columbia. Rent Commission - Housing - 1925 - 108 pages
...' institutions rest,' 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...in any country where freedom prevails as being the very essence of slavery itself ; yet ' in many cases of mere administration the responsibility is purely... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1148 pages
...and not of men.' 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 lie intolerable in any country where freedom prevails, as being the essence of slavery itself." Mr.... | |
 | George Arthur Malcolm - Constitutional law - 1926 - 812 pages
...and not of men.' For the very idea that one man :nay be compelled to hold his life, or the means of living, or any material right essential to the enjoyment...prevails, as being the essence of slavery itself." ' Mr. Justice Miller said in another case: "No man in this country is so high that he is above the... | |
 | Max James Kohler - Jews - 1926 - 670 pages
...late* amd mot of For, the reiy idea that one man may be comp*fl«d to bold his life, or the means of living, or any material right essential to the enjoyment of life, at the mere will of another, seems Ift \#i intolerable in any country where freedom prevails, a* being the essence of slavery it»elf.... | |
 | Law - 1894 - 560 pages
...and not of men,' 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...prevails, as being the essence of slavery itself." Section 101 of the ordinance is equally objectionable. While It does not in terms impose a tax upon... | |
 | California. District Courts of Appeal - Law reports, digests, etc - 1927 - 978 pages
...also, Rose's US Notes], 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...freedom prevails, as being the essence of slavery." It will be noted that the language last quoted of Mr. Justice Matthews of the United States supreme... | |
 | Jerome Davis, Harry Elmer Barnes - Social psychology - 1927 - 964 pages
...says: For 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 enjoyment of life,...intolerable in any country where freedom prevails, being the essence of slavery itself. While every worker now in theory has the right to leave his employment,... | |
 | Law - 1906 - 534 pages
...must be so exercised as not to impair the fundamental rights of life, liberty, and property, * • • yet in many cases of mere administration the responsibility...no appeal lying except to the ultimate tribunal of tbe public judgment, exercised either in the premire of public opinion or by means of the suffrage.'... | |
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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... 
