Year BookThe Association, 1906 List of members in each volume except 1929/30-1931/32. |
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14th amendment annual meeting appointed approved ARTICLE Asso Bar Association bill Board of Trustees Bridgeton By-Laws candidate Chairman CHARLES CHARLES W clause Committee on Admissions Committee on Legal congress declared disbursements duty elec election electoral count electoral system electoral votes employees enacted GASKILL GEORGE Hardy Holden Hotel Chelsea hours of labor house of representatives Hudson County injury JAMES JERSEY STATE BAR JOHN Judge Judicial Sales juror jury commission jury list legis legislation legislature LEWIS Lochner majority membership ment Morristown N. J. Atlantic City N. J. Camden N. J. Jersey City N. J. New Brunswick N. J. Newark N. J. Paterson N. J. Somerville N. J. Trenton nominating opinion organic law PARKER party person Perth Amboy police power president and vice-president president-elect prohibited proposed question regulation Secretary senate statute submitted sui juris Supreme Court tution twelfth amendment VOORHEES WILLIAM York
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Page 60 - ... is a social compact by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.
Page 64 - I think that the word liberty in the Fourteenth Amendment is perverted when it is held to prevent the natural outcome of a dominant opinion, unless it can be said that a rational and fair man necessarily would admit that the statute proposed would infringe fundamental principles as they have been understood by the traditions of our people and our law.
Page 45 - Vice-President is contained therein, and shall, by writing under their hands, or under the hands of a majority of them, appoint a person to take charge of and deliver to the President of the Senate...
Page 58 - It seems to us that the real object and purpose were simply to regulate the hours of labor between the master and his employees (all being men, sui juris), in a private business, not dangerous in any degree to morals or in any real and substantial degree, to the health of the employees.
Page 57 - Is this a fair, reasonable and appropriate exercise of the police power of the State, or is it an unreasonable, unnecessary and arbitrary interference with the right of the individual to his personal liberty or to enter into those contracts in relation to labor which may seem to him appropriate or necessary for the support of himself and his family? Of course the liberty of contract relating to labor includes both parties to it, The one has as much right to purchase as the other to sell labor.
Page 69 - All men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; and pursuing and obtaining safety- and happiness.
Page 56 - The enactment does not profess to limit the hours of all workmen, but merely those who are employed in underground mines, or in the smelting, reduction or refining of ores or metals. These employments, when too long pursued, the legislature has judged to be detrimental to the health of the employes, and, so long as there are reasonable grounds for believing that this is so, its decision upon this subject cannot be reviewed by the Federal courts.
Page 61 - But if it be within the power of a legislature to adopt such means for the protection of the lives of its citizens, it is difficult to see why precautions may not also be adopted for the protection of their health and morals. It is as much for the interest of the state that the public health should be preserved as that life should be made secure.
Page 42 - President of the United States, the President of the Senate pro tempore, and in case there shall be no President of the Senate, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives, for the time being shall act as President of the United States until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected.
Page 31 - no more officers or agents of the United States than are the members of the state legislatures when acting as electors of Federal senators, or the people of the States when acting as the electors of representatives in Congress.